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Walthamstow 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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Birth-Rates, Death-Rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case Rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1951. 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 Adminis' trative County. | Walthamstow. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rates per 1,000 Home Population | ||||||||||
| Births:— | ||||||||||
| Live Births | 15.5 | 17.3 | 16.7 | 17.8 | 13.5 | |||||
| Still Births | 0.36 | 0.45 | 0.38 | 0.37 | 0.31 | |||||
| Deaths:— | ||||||||||
| All Causes | 12.5 | 13.4 | 12.5 | 13.1 | 10.8 | |||||
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |||||
| Whooping Cough | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — | |||||
| Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | |||||
| Tuberculosis | 0.31 | 0.37 | 0.31 | 0.38 | 0.31 | |||||
| Influenza | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.38 | 0.23 | 0.17 | |||||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | — | |||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | – | |||||
| Pneumonia | 0.61 | 0.65 | 0.63 | 0.61 | 0.83 | |||||
| Notifications (Corrected):— | ||||||||||
| Typhoid Fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |||||
| Paratyphoid Fever | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |||||
| Meningococcal Infection | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 | |||||
| Scarlet Fever | 1.11 | 1.20 | 1.20 | 1.10 | 0.98 | |||||
| Whooping Cough | 3.87 | 3.62 | 4.00 | 3.11 | 6.14 | |||||
| Diphtheria | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.01 | — | |||||
| Erysipelas | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.15 | 0.27 | |||||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | — | |||||
| Measles | 14.07 | 13.93 | 14.82 | 14.64 | 18.98 | |||||
| Pneumonia | 0.99 | 1.04 | 0.96 | 0.72 | 0.69 | |||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) | ||||||||||
| Paralytic | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.07 | |||||
| Non-Paralytic | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.00 | |||||
| Food Poisoning | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.23 | 0.11 | |||||
| Deaths:— | Rates per 1,000 Live Births | |||||||||
| All causes under 1 year of age | 29.6(a) | 33.9 | 27.6 | 26.4 | 22.6 | |||||
| Enteritis and Diarrhœa under 2 years of age | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.7 | – | |||||
| Notifications (Corrected):— | Rates per 1,000 Total (Live 6? Still) Births | |||||||||
| Puerperal Fever Pyrexia | 10.66 | 13.77 | | 8.08 | 14.90 | 25.67 | |||||
| Maternal Mortality:— | A. 115 Sepsis of pregnancy childbirth and the puerperium | A.116 Abortion with toxaemia | Other toxaemias of pregnancy and the puerperium | A. 117 Haemorrhage of pregnancy and childbirth | A.118 Abortion without mention of sepsis or toxaemia | A. 119 Abortion with sepsis | A.120 lOther complications of 1 pregnancy, childbirth 1 and the puerperium | |||
| Number of Deaths:— | ||||||||||
| Walthamstow | – | — | — | — | 2 | — | ||||
| England and Wales 70 | 3 | 167 | 91 | 37 | 66 | 125 | ||||
| Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births:— | ||||||||||
| Walthamstow — | — | — | — | — | 1.19 | – | ||||
| England and Wales 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.24 | 0.13 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.18 | ||||
(a) Per 1,000 related live-births.