Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]
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BIRTH-RATES, DEATH-RATES, AND ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY IN THE YEAR, 1936.
Rate per 1,000 Total Population. | Annual Death-rate per 1,000 Population. | Rate per 1,000 Live Births | |||||||||||
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Live Births. | Still-births. | All Causes. | Typhoid Fevers. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Influenza. | Violence. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under two years). | Total Deaths under one year. | |
Penge U.D. | 16.7 | 0.58 | 10.9 | — | — | 0.15 | — | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.03 | 0.46 | 4.6 | 48 |
England and Wales | 14.8 | 0.61 | 12.1 | 0.01 | — | 0.07 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.14 | 0.52 | 5.9 | 59 |
122 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London | 14.9 | 0.67 | 12.3 | 0.01 | — | 0.09 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.14 | 0.45 | 8.2 | 63 |
143 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations, 25,000 to 50,000 at Census, 1931) | 15.0 | 0.64 | 11.5 | 0.00 | — | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.15 | 0.39 | 3.4 | 55 |
London | 13.6 | 0.53 | 12.5 | 0.01 | — | 0.14 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.14 | 0.52 | 14.4 | 66 |