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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 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Table 2.—BIRTH RATE, DEATH RATE AND ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, 1944.
| Rate per 1,000 Civilian Population. | Annual Death Rate per 1,000 Civilian Population. | Rate per 1,000 Live Births. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births. | Still Births. | All Causes. | Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Influenza. | Smallpox. | Measles. | Total Deaths under one year. | Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under two years.) | |
| England and Wales | 17.61 | 0.50* | 11.6* | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 46† | 4.8 |
| 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London. | 20.3 | 0.64 | 13.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.10 | _ | 0.01 | 52 | 7.3 |
| 148 Smaller Towns (resident populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census, 1931.) | 20.9 | 0.61 | 12.4 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.11 | - | 0.01 | 44 | 4.4 |
| London—Administrative County | 15.0 | 0.42 | 15.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.08 | — | 0.00 | 61 | 10.1 |
| East Ham | 20.9 | 0.49 | 14.4 | 0.01 | — | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.02 | — | — | 31 | 1.04 |
* Rates per 1,000 total population.
† Per 1,000 related births.
A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths.