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 Romford]
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TABLE 1
BIRTH-RATES, DEATH-RATES, ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, MATERNAL MORTALITY, and CASE-RATES for certain Infections Diseases in the year 1955.
England and Wales, and Romford.
(Provisional Figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns)
RATE PER 1,000 POPULATION | All Causes | DEATH-RATE PER 1,000 POPULATION | Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | Pneumonia | RATE PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS | ||||||||
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Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Tuberculosis | Influenza | Small-pox | (Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years) | Total Deaths under 1 year | ||||||
Live Births | Still Births | ||||||||||||
England and Wales | 15.0 | 0.35 | 11.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.03 | 0.00 | *** | 0.50 | *** | 24.9 |
ROMFORD | 14.9 | 0.40 | 9.2 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.37 | 0.0 | 23.0 |
The Maternal Mortality Rate for Romford is as follows: Per 1,000 Total Live and Still Births — 0.51
*** Not available.