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 1A
Table showing comparison between the Birth-rate, Death-rate, etc., of Ilford, other Towns, and of England and Wales
for the Year 1944
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 | 17.6 | 0.50 | 11.6 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.12 | 4.8 | 46 |
126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 20.3 | 0.64 | 13.7 | 0.00 | — | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 7.3 | 52 |
148 Smaller Towns (Estimated Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census 1931) | 20.9 | 0.61 | 12.4 | 0.00 | — | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 4.4 | 44 |
London Administrative Co. | 15.0 | 0.42 | 15.7 | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.08 | 10.1 | 61 |
ILFORD (Estimated Gross Population, mid 1944 = 149,330 | 18.5 | 0.38 | 11.1 | — | — | — | — | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 2.5 | 36.8 |
A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths.