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Walthamstow 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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Birth-rates, Civilian Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and case Rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1948. Provisional figures based on quarterly returns.

England and Wales.126 County Boroughs and Great Towns (including London)148 Smaller Towns (Resident Population 25,000-50,000 at 1931 CensusLondon Administrative County.Walthamstow.
Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population.
Births:—
Live17.9120.019.220.116.8
Still0.42*0.520.430.390.37
Deaths:—
All Causes10.8*11.610.711.610.1
Typhoid and Paratyphoid0.000.000.000.00
Whooping Cough0.020.020.020.010.04
Diphtheria0.000.000.000.01
Tuberculosis0.510.590.460.630.52
Influenza0.030.030.040.020.04
Smallpox
Acute Poliomyelitis and
Polioencephalitis0.010.010.010.00
Pneumonia0.410.380.360.540.48
Notifications:—
Typhoid Fever0.010.000.010.000.01
Paratyphoid Fever0.010.010.010.01
Cerebro-spinal Fever0.030.030.020.030.00
Scarlet Fever1.731.901.821.371.53
Whooping Cough3.423.513.313.134.60
Diphtheria0.080.100.090.100.00
Erysipelas0.210.230.210.220.22
Smallpox
Measles9.349.758.849.175.20
Pneumonia0.730.840.600.570.69
Acute Poliomyelitis0.040.050.040.040.02
Acute Polioencephalitis0.000.000.000.00
Rates per 1,000 Live Births.
Deaths under 1 year of age34f39323120
Deaths from Diarrhoea and En teritis under 2 years of age3.34.52.12.40.9
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live & Still)
(a) Notifications:—
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia6.898.904.71‡7.3410.4
(b) Maternal Mortality:-
No. 140. Abortion with Sepsis.No. 141. Abortion without Sepsis.No. 147 Puerperal Infections.Nos. 142-6. 148-50. Other.
England and Wales0.110.050.130.73
Walthamstow

* Rates per 1,000 Total Population.
f Per 1,000 related births.
| In London Puerperal Fever alone was 0.61