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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 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 2. - BIRTH RATE, DEATH RATE AND ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, 1952.
| 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 | Smallpox | Tuberculosis | Total Deaths under one year | Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years) | |
| England and Wales | 15.3 | 0.35 | 11.3 | 0.00 | O.Ol | 0.47 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.00 | '0.24 | 27.6 | l.l |
| 160 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 16.9 | 0.43 | 12.1 | 0.00 | 0,01 | 0.52 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | - | 0.28 | 31.2 | 1.3 |
| 160 Smaller Towns (resident populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census, 1951) | 15.5 | 0.36 | 11.2 | 0.00 | 0„00 | 0.43 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | - | 0.22 | 25.8 | 0.5 |
| London - Administrative County | 17.6 | 0.34 | 12.6 | - | 0.01 | 0.58 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0„05 | - | 0.31 | 23.8 | 0.7 |
| EAST HAM | 12.73 | 0.25 | 12.4 | - | 0.01 | 0. 66 | - | - | 0.02 | - | 0.23 | 22.9 | 0.6 |
| A dash (-) signifies there were no deaths0 | |||||||||||||