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East Ham 1937

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Table: TABLE 41.In the following Table a comparison of the Vital Statistics relating to certain County Boroughs of a Population between 100,000 and 200,000 is shewn:

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TABLE 41.

In the following Table a comparison of the Vital Statistics relating to certain County Boroughs of a Population between 100,000 and 200,000 is shewn:

			East Ham	Birkenhead	Blackburn	Blackpool	Bolton	Bournemouth	Derby	Dundee	Gates-head	Huddersfield	Middles-brough	Norwich	Oldham	Preston	Reading	Southampton	Southend-on-Sea	Stockport	Sunderland	Swansea	Walsall	Wolver hampton	York
Population as estimated by Registrar General, Middle 1937			131,100	145,500	114,000	123,800	170,400	121,000	139,700	177,711	117,600	*121,173	139,600	123,000	127,800	113,600	100,200	178,700	137,400	133,700	182,900	161,750	106,800	144,000	100,090
Comparability Factor			1.10	1.09	1.03	0.91	1.09	0.75	1.04	—	113	1.04	1.18	0.92	1.12	1.11	0.89	0.99	0.91	1.05	1.12	1.12	1.12	1.08	1.01
Birth Rate per 1,000 population			14.8	1.71	11.7	10.3	12.7	11.16	14.8	17.6	17.7	12.78	19.5	13.63	13.18	14.00	15.6	15.87	11.3	14.14	19.7	15.14	17.90	16.9	15.0
Crude Death Rate do. do.			10.8	1.30	15.2	16.57	14.2	14.57	12.9	15.0	13.7	14.28	13.8	11.61	15.86	14.23	13.06	12.4	13.3	13.94	14.0	12.75	12.01	11.9	11.95
Death Rate as adjusted by Factor			11.8	1.41	15.6	15.08	15.4	10.92	13.4	15.0	15.4	14.85	16.3	10.68	17.76	15.79	11.62	12.2	12.1	14.64	15.7	14.28	13.45	12.8	12.1
Death Rates per 1,000 population from:—	Smallpox		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	Measles		—	—	—	0.016	0.02	—	0.02	0.006	0.02	0.02	0.07	—	0.039	0.035	—	—	—	0.01	0.11	0.06	0.11	0.09	0.01
	Scarlet Fever		—	0.00	—	—	—	—	—	0.03	—	—	0.02	—	—	—	—	0.0112	0.014	—	0.03	0.011	0.03	0.02	—
	Whooping Cough		0.038	0.06	0.03	—	0.08	0.03	0.057	0.29	0.04	—	0.22	0.024	0.023	0.009	0.60	0.0447	0.036	—	0.02	0.006	0.07	0.05	0.10
	Diphtheria		0.022	0.17	0.10	0.0565	0.13	0.07	0.043	0.05	0.22	0.03	0.07	0.065	0.133	0.07	0.80	0.056	0.028	0.03	0.11	0.14	0.09	0.12	—
	Typhoid and Para-Typhoid		0.007	—	—	—	0.005	—	0.007	—	—	0.01	—	—	—	0.00	—	0.0056	0.022	—	0.01	—	—	—	—
	Diarrhoea under 2 years		0.106	0.15	0.02	0.032	0.02	0.03	0.057	0.11	0.16	0.02	0.21	0.073	0.015	0.09	0.11	0.0839	0.065	0.06	0.49	0.05	0.13	0.21	0.06
	Influenza		0.27	0.37	0.37	0.565	0.61	0.46	0.58	0.64	0.42	0.49	0.44	0.23	0.516	0.61	0.41	0.3693	0.487	0.35	0.58	0.32	0.49	0.26	0.49
	Tuberculosis—Pulmonary		0.61	0.76	0.62	0.541	0.53	0.62	0.55	0.57	1.00	0.50	0.9'7	0.5	0.64	0.68	0.54	0.7331	0.553	0.74	0.80	0.77	0.78	0.69	0.44
	do. Other Forms		0.09	0.1l	0.10	0.065	0.10	0.11	0.078	0.25	0.11	0.09	0.21	0.09	0.13	0.17	0.74	0.1007	0.051	0.16	0.23	0.17	0.14	0.15	0.11
Infantile Mortality Rate			48	77	69	57.7	61	45.89	63.9	87	77	61	91	52.47	69	77	81	48.6	46	56.61	85	56	57	68	48.4
Maternal Mortality per 1,000 Total Births.		From Sepsis	—	0.40	—	0.78	0.87	0.71	1.39	1.92	0.91	0.65	1.77	1.155	1.12	1.20	—	0.70	0.623	3.03	1.06	2.4	2.02	—	0.65
		,, Other Causes	0.49	0.80	6.34	2.34	5.23	2.14	3.27	3.20	2.75	0.65	2.82	1.732	2.24	1.20	1.8	1.05 ¹	3.738	5.56	2.39	1.6	2.02	1.57	1.96
		Total	0.49	1.20	6.34	3.12	6.10	2.85	4.66	5.12	3.66	1.30	4.59	2.887	3.36	2.40	1.8	1.75	4.361	8.59	3.45	4.0	4.04	1.57	2.61

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* Modified estimate for 1937 statistics.
Mid-year estimate as now constituted 123,030.

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East Ham 1937

Table: TABLE 41.In the following Table a comparison of the Vital Statistics relating to certain County Boroughs of a Population between 100,000 and 200,000 is shewn:

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