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Romford 1957
[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 England and Wales, and Romford. Diseases in the year 1957. (Provisional Figures 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 | 16.1 | 0.37 | 11.5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.56 | *** | 23.0 |
| ROMFORD | 14.9 | 0.35 | 9.8 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.38 | 0.00 | 18.2 |
| The Maternal Mortality Rate for Romford is as follows: Per 1,000 Total Live and Still Births — 0.50 | |||||||||||||
| The Maternal Mortality Rate for England & Wales is as follows: Per 1,000 Total Live and Still Births — 0.17 | |||||||||||||
| ***Not available. | |||||||||||||