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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 2.—BIRTH RATE, DEATH RATE AND ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, 1937.
| Rate per 1,000 Population. | Annual Death Rate per 1,000 Population. | Rate per 1,000 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 | 14.9 | 0.60 | 12.4 | 0.00 | — | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.45 | 0.54 | 5.8 | 58 |
| 125 County Boroughs & Great Towns including London | 14.9 | 0.67 | 12.5 | 0.01 | — | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.39 | 0.45 | 7.9 | 62 |
| 148 Smaller Towns (estimated resident populations 25,000 -50,000 at census 1931) | 15.3 | 0.64 | 11.9 | 0.00 | _ | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.42 | 0.42 | 3.2 | 55 |
| London—Administrative Co'ty | 13.3 | 0.54 | 12.3 | 0.00 | — | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.38 | 0.51 | 12.0 | 60 |
| EAST HAM | 14.8 | 0.44 | 10.8 | 0.00 | — | — | — | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.27 | 0.36 | 7.1 | 48 |