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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
Southgate 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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Comparison of the Rates of the Southgate District with those of England
and Wales and London, for the Year 1920.
Birth-rate per
1,000
Population.
Death-rates per 1,000 Population.
Death-rate
under 1 year
per 1,000
births.
Table V.
All
Causes.
Enteric
Fever.
Scarlet
Fever.
Diphtheria.
Measles.
Whooping
Cough.
England & Wales
25.4
12.4
0.01
0.04
0.15
0.19
0.11
80
London
26.5
12.4
0.01
0.05
0.22
0.22
0.17
75
Southgate
17.0
8.7
0.00
0.02
0.04
0.04
0.00
35.7