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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 2. BIRTH RATE, DEATH RATE AMD ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, 1950.
| Rate per 1,000 Population | Annual Death Rates per 1,000 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 | 1 Smallpox | Tuberculosis | Total Deaths under one year | Deaths £rom Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years) | |
| England and Wales | +15.8 | +0.37 | +11.6 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.46 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.10 | - | 0.36 | 29.8 | 1.9 |
| 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 17.6 | 0.45 | 12.3 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.49 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.09 | - | 0.42 | 33.8 | 2.2 |
| 148 Smaller Toms (resident populations 25,000 to 50,,000 at Census, 1931) | 16.7 | 0.38 | 11.6 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.45 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.10 | - | 0.33 | 29.4 | 1.6 |
| London - Administrative County | 17.8 | 0.36 | 11.8 | 0.00 | 0.01 | O.48 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.07 | - | 0.39 | 26.3 | 1.0 |
| East. Ham | 14.3 | 0.37 | 11.13 | - | 0.00 | 0.40 | 0.01 | - | 0.06 | - | 0.29 | 25 | 1.1 |
Rates per 1,000 total population Per l,000 related births.
A dash (-) signifies there were no deaths.
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