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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
Romford 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford]
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TABLE 1.
BIRTH-RATES, DEATHS-RATES, ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, MATERNAL MORTALITY and CASE -RATES for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1949.
England and Wales, London, 126 Great Towns and 148 Smaller Towns.
(Provisional Figure based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns).
| Rate per 1,000 Population | DEATH-RATE PER 1,000 POPULATION. | Rate per 1,000 Live Births | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births | still-births | All Causes | Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers | Whooping cough | Diphtheria | Tuberculosis | Influenza | Small-pox | Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | Pneumonia | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years) | Total Deaths under 1 year | |
| England and Wales | 16.7 | 0.39 | 11.7 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.45 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.51 | 3.0 | 32 |
| 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 18.7 | 0.47 | 12.5 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.52 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.56 | 3.8 | 37 |
| 148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census) | 18.0 | 0.40 | 11.6 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.42 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.49 | 2.4 | 30 |
| London | 18.5 | 0.37 | 12.2 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.52 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.59 | 1.7 | 29 |
| ROMFORD | 18.0 | 0.39 | 10.8 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.42 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.42 | 0.75 | 17 |
| Puerperal Sepsis | Others | Total | |||||||||||
| The Maternal Mortality Rates for England and Wales are as follow: Per 1,000 Total Live Births | 0.22 | 0.76 | 0.98 | ||||||||||
| „ .. „ Romford are as follow: Per 1,000 Total Live Births | 0.00 | 0.74 | 0.74 | ||||||||||