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 East Ham]
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TABLE 1.—BIRTH RATE, DEATH RATE AND ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, 1935.
Rate per 1,000 Population. | Annual Death Rate per 1,000 Population. | Rate per 1,000 Live Births. | |||||||||||
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Live Births. | Still Births. | All Causes | Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fevers. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Influenza. | Violence. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under two years). | Total Deaths under One Yr. | |
England & Wales | 14.7 | 0.62 | 11.7 | 0.00 | — | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.18 | 0.52 | 5.7 | 57 |
121 County Boroughs & Great Towns including London | 14.8 | 0.68 | 11.8 | 0.00 | — | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.16 | 0.45 | 7.9 | 62 |
140 Smaller Towns (estimated resident populations 25,000 -50,000 at census 1931) | 14.8 | 0.64 | 11.2 | 0.00 | - | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.17 | 0.41 | 3.8 | 55 |
London | 13.3 | 0.52 | 11.4 | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.11 | 0.51 | 11.2 | 58 |
EAST HAM | 14.4 | 0.54 | 10.2 | 0.00 | — | — | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.10 | 0.44 | 3.5 | 43 |