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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
East Ham 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 2.—BIRTH RATE, DEATH RATE AND ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, 1936.
| Rate per 1,000 Population. | Annual Death Rate per 1,000 Population. | Rate per l.OOC Live Births. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 14.8 | 0.61 | 12.1 | 0.01 | — | 0.07 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.14 | 0.52 | 5.9 | 59 |
| 122 County Boroughs & Great Towns including London | 14.9 | 0.67 | 12.3 | 0.01 | — | 0.09 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.14 | 0.45 | 8.2 | 63 |
| 143 Smaller Towns (estimated resident populations 25,000 -50,000 at census 1931) | 15.0 | 0.64 | 11.5 | 0.00 | - | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.15 | 0.39 | 3.4 | 55 |
| London | 13.6 | 0.53 | 12.5 | 0.01 | — | 0.14 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.14 | 0.52 | 14.4 | 66 |
| EAST HAM | 14.4 | 0.47 | 10.6 | — | — | 0.12 | — | 0.07 | 0.03 | 0.09 | 0.42 | 9.8 | 50 |