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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 2.—BIRTH RATE, DEATH RATE AND ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, 1938.
| 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. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under two years). | Total Deaths under One Yr. | |
| England & Wales | 15.1 | 0.60 | 11.6 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.11 | 5.5 | 53 |
| 126 County Boroughs & Great Towns including London | 15.0 | 0.65 | 11.7 | 0.00 | — | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.10 | 7.8 | 57 |
| 148 Smaller Towns (estimated resident populations 25,000 -50,000 at census 1931) | 15.4 | 0.60 | 11.0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.11 | 3.6 | 51 |
| London—Administrative Co'ty | 13.4 | 0.48 | 11.4 | 0.00 | — | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 13.1 | 57 |
| EAST HAM | 14.1 | 0.52 | 10.6 | 0.007 | — | 0.03 | — | 0.02 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 4.3 | 51 |