London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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T able 1.—BIRTH RATE, DEATH RATE AND ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, 1948.
| Rate per 1,000 Civilian Population | Annual Death Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population | Rate per 1,000 Live Births | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births. | Still Births. | All Causes. | Typhoid and Para-Typhoid Fevers. | Acute Poliomyelitis & Polioencephalitis. | Pneumonia. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Influenza. | Smallpox. | Tuberculosis. | Total Deaths under one year. | Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years). | |
| England and Wales | †l7.9 | †0 .42 | †10.8 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.41 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | — | 0.51 | 34* | 3.8 |
| 120 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 20.0 | 0.52 | 11.6 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.38 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | — | 0.59 | 39 | 4.5 |
| 148 Smaller Towns (resident populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census, 1931) | 19.2 | 0.43 | 10.7 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.36 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.04 | — | 0.4.6 | 32 | 2.1 |
| London—Administrative County | 20.1 | 0.39 | 11.6 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.54 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | — | 0.63 | 31 | 2.4 |
| East Ham | 18.1 | 0.38 | 9.67 | — | 0.00 | 0.37 | 0.01 | — | 0.02 | — | 0.59 | 26 | 1.3 |
†Rates per 1,000 total population. *Per 1,000 related births.
A dash (—) signifies there were no deaths.
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