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 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 Census | London Administrative County. | Walthamstow. | ||
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Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population. | ||||||
Live | 17.91 | 20.0 | 19.2 | 20.1 | 16.8 | |
Still | 0.42* | 0.52 | 0.43 | 0.39 | 0.37 | |
All Causes | 10.8* | 11.6 | 10.7 | 11.6 | 10.1 | |
Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | |
Whooping Cough | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.04 | |
Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | — | |
Tuberculosis | 0.51 | 0.59 | 0.46 | 0.63 | 0.52 | |
Influenza | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.04 | |
Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | |
Acute Poliomyelitis and | ||||||
Polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | — | |
Pneumonia | 0.41 | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.54 | 0.48 | |
Typhoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | |
Paratyphoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — | |
Cerebro-spinal Fever | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.00 | |
Scarlet Fever | 1.73 | 1.90 | 1.82 | 1.37 | 1.53 | |
Whooping Cough | 3.42 | 3.51 | 3.31 | 3.13 | 4.60 | |
Diphtheria | 0.08 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.00 | |
Erysipelas | 0.21 | 0.23 | 0.21 | 0.22 | 0.22 | |
Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | |
Measles | 9.34 | 9.75 | 8.84 | 9.17 | 5.20 | |
Pneumonia | 0.73 | 0.84 | 0.60 | 0.57 | 0.69 | |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.02 | |
Acute Polioencephalitis | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | |
Rates per 1,000 Live Births. | ||||||
Deaths under 1 year of age | 34f | 39 | 32 | 31 | 20 | |
Deaths from Diarrhoea and En teritis under 2 years of age | 3.3 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 0.9 | |
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live & Still) | ||||||
(a) Notifications:— | ||||||
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia | 6.89 | 8.90 | 4.71 | ‡7.34 | 10.4 | |
(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 Wales | 0.11 | 0.05 | 0.13 | 0.73 | ||
Walthamstow | — | — | — | — |
* Rates per 1,000 Total Population.
f Per 1,000 related births.
| In London Puerperal Fever alone was 0.61