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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
Ilford 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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TABLE IA
Table showing comparison between the Birth.rate, Death.rate, etc., of Ilford, other Towns, and of England and Wales for the
Year 1949 (Provisional figures).
| Rate per 1,000 Total Population | Annual Death.rate per 1,000 Population | Rate per 1,000 Live Births | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes | Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers | Smallpox | Tuberculosis (all forms) | Pneumonia | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Influenza | Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 Yrs.) | Total Deaths under 1 Year | |||
| Live Births | Stillbirths | ||||||||||||
| England and Wales | (a) 16.7 | (a) 0.39 | (a) 11.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.45 | 0.51 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.01 | 3.0 | 32 |
| 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 18.7 | 0.47 | 12.5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.52 | 0.56 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.02 | 3.8 | 37 |
| 148 Smaller Towns (Estimated Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census 1931) | 18.0 | 0.40 | 11.6 | 0.00 | - | 0.42 | 0.49 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.02 | 2.4 | 30 |
| London Administrative County | 18.5 | 0.37 | 12.2 | 0.00 | — | 0.52 | 0.59 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.01 | 1.7 | 29 |
| ILFORD (Estimated Gross Population, mid 1949 = 185,000) | 14.2 | 0.33 | 9.3 | - | - | 0.29 | 0.33 | 0.01 | - | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0.4 | 20 |
(a) Rates per 1000 total population; otherwise rates are based on civilian population. A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths.
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