Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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TABLE 1 A
Table showing comparison between the Birth-rate, Death-rate, etc., of Ilford, other Towns, and of England and Wales
for the Year 1939 (
Rate per 1,000 Total Population | Annual Death-rate per 1,000 Population | Rate per 1,000 Live Births | ||||||||||
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All Causes | Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers | Smallpox | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Influenza | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 Yrs.) | Total Deaths under 1 Year | |||
Live Births | Stillbirths | |||||||||||
England and Wales | 15.0 | 0.59 | 12.1 | 0.00 | — | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.21 | 4.6 | 50 |
126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London ... | 14.8 | 0.59 | 12.0 | 0.00 | — | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.19 | 6.3 | 53 |
148 Smaller Towns (Estimated Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census, 1931) | 15.6 | 0.57 | 11.2 | 0.00 | — | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.20 | 3.0 | 40 |
London Administrative Co. | 12.3 | 0.44 | 11.9 | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.18 | 8.2 | 48 |
ILFORD (Estimated, Gross Population, 169,800 mid. 1939 | 13.6 | 0.40 | 8.5 | 0.01 | — | — | — | — | 0.01 | 0.21 | 0.8 | 33.9 |