Table: Birth-rates, Death rates, and Case-rates for certain infectious diseases, in the Year, 1950, Provisional figures based on Quarterly Returns.
Birth-rates, Death rates, and Case-rates for certain infectious diseases, in the Year, 1950, Provisional figures based on Quarterly Returns.
| England and Wales | 126 C.Bs. and Great Towns including London | 148 Smaller towns Resident Pop.25,000 -50,000 at 1931 Census | London Adm. County | Kingston upon Thames. |
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| Births | | Rates per 1,000 Home population. |
| Live Births | 15«8 | 17.6 | 16.7 | 17.8 | 14.8 |
| Still Births | 0.37 | 0.45 | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.26 |
| Deaths | | | | | |
| All Causes | 11.6 | 12.3 | 11.6 | 11.8 | 11.7 |
| Typhoid and paratyphoid | 0.00 | OoOO | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Whooping Cough | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0. 00 |
| Diphtheria | 0. 00 | 0.00 | 0. 00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Tuberculosis | 0*36 | 0.2+2 | 0.33 | 0.39 | 0.29 |
| Influenza | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.10 | O.07 | 0.09 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis) | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0. 00 |
| Pneumonia | 0.46 | 0.49 | 0.45 | 0.48 | 0.50 |
| Notifications. (Corrected) | | | | | |
| Typhoid Fever | 0. 00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Paratyphoid fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0. 01 | 0.01 | 0. 00 |
| Meningococcal infection | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0. 00 |
| Scarlet fever | 1.50 | 1.56 | 1.61 | 1.23 | 1.26 |
| Whooping Cough | 3-60 | 3.97 | 3.15 | 3.21 | 0.97 |
| Diphtheria | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.00 |
| Erysipelas | 0.17 | 0.19 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.07 |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | O.00 | | - | - |
| Measles | 8.39 | 8.76 | 8.36 | 6.57 | 3.15 |
| Pneumonia | 0.70 | 0.77 | 0.61 | 0.50 | 0.38 |
| Acute poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis) Paralytic | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.08 | 0.05 |
| Non-paralytic | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| Food poisoning | 0.17 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.25 | 0.02 |
| Deaths. | | Rates per 1,000 Live Births | |
| All causes under 1year of age Enteritis and diarrhoea under 2 | 29.8(a) | 33.8 | 29.4 | 26.3 | 30.69 |
| years of age | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 1.0 | lt6 |
| Notifications | Rates per ls000 Total (Live and Still Births) |
| (Corrected) Puerperal fever and Pyrexia | 5.81 | 7.43 | 4.33 | 6.03 | 12.69 |
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(A) Per 1,000 related live births.
