London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Penge 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]
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| Rate per 1,000 Total Population. | Annual Death-rate per 1,000 Population. | Rate per 1,000 Live Births | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. 1 | 0.66 | 11.9 | — | — | — | — | 0.03 | — | 0.35 | 0.35 | 19.3 | 57 |
| England and Wales | 14.9 | 0.60 | 12.4 | 0.00 | — | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0 07 | 0.45 | 0.54 | 5.8 | 58 |
| 125 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London | 14.9 | 0.67 | 12.5 | 0.01 | — | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.39 | 0.45 | 7.9 | 62 |
| 148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations, 25,000 to 50,000 at Census, 1931) | 15.3 | 0.64 | 11.9 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.42 | 0.42 | 3.2 | 55 | |
| London | 13.3 | 0.54 | 12.3 | 0.00 | — | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.38 | 0.51 | 12.0 | 60 |