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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
Walthamstow 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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Extracts from Vital Statistics.—The Registrar-General's
mid-year, 1934, estimate of population (viz., 135,090) has been used for the calculation of all vital statistics:—
| Total. | Males. | Females. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births | Legitimate | 1,678 | 852 | 826 | Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 12.6 | ||
| Illegitimate | 37 | 17 | 20 | ||||
| Total | 1,715 | 869 | 846 | ||||
| Stillbirths 60 | Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 33.8 | ||||||
| Deaths 1,393 | Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 10.3 | ||||||
Deaths from puerperal causes :—
| Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births. | ||
|---|---|---|
| Puerperal Sepsis Deaths | 7 | 3.94 |
| Other Puerperal Causes | 5 | 2.81 |
| Total | 12 | 6.75 |
Death-rate of infants under one year of age:—
All infants per 1,000 live births 44
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 44
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 54
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 22
,, ,, Whooping Cough (all ages) 2
,, ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 6
The following extract is from a circular issued by the RegistrarGeneral:—
Comparability Factor for adjusting the Local Death
Rates of 1931 and subsequent years.
" A factor is given by which the crude death-rate of the area
should be multiplied in order to make it comparable, from a
mortality point of view, with the crude death-rate of the country
as a whole or with the mortality of any other local area, the crude
death-rate of which should be similarly modified with its own factor
for the purpose.
" If the populations of all areas were similarly constituted as
regards the proportions of their sex and age group components,
their crude death-rates (deaths per 1,000 population) could be