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Walthamstow 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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Table: Birth-Rates, Death-Rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case Rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1952. Provisional figures based on Quarterly Returns.

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Birth-Rates, Death-Rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case Rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1952. Provisional figures based on Quarterly Returns.

			England and Wales	160 County Borough and Great Towns (including London);	160 Smaller Towns (Resident Population 25,000-50,000 at 1951 Census)	London Administrative County	Walthamstow
			Rates per 1,000 Home Population
Births:-
Live Births			15.3	16.9	15.5	17.6	12.6
Still Births			0.35	0.43	0.36	0.34	0.24
Still Births			22.6*	24.6*	23.0*	19.2*	18.8*
Deaths:—
All Causes			11.3	12.1	11.2	12.6	10.8
Typhoid and Paratyphoid			0.00	0.00	0.00	—	—
Whooping Cough			0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Diphtheria			0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Tuberculosis			0.24	0.28	0.22	0.31	0.18
Influenza			0.04	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.02
Smallpox			0.00	—	—	—	—
Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis)			0.01	0.01	0.00	0.01	-
Pneumonia			0.47	0.52	0.43	0.58	0.77
Notifications (Corrected):—
Typhoid Fever			0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Paratyphoid Fever			0.02	0.02	0.03	0.01	0.02
Meningococcal Infection			0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.02
Scarlet Fever			1.53	1.75	1.58	1.56	3.47
Whooping Cough			2.61	2.74	2.57	1.66	1.57
Diphtheria			0.01	0.01	0.03	0.01	—
Erysipelas			0.14	0.15	0.12	0.14	0.27
Smallpox			0.00	0.00	0.00	—	—
Measles			8.86	10.11	8.49	9.23	13.06
Pneumonia			0.72	0.80	0.62	0.57	0.83
Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis):—
Paralytic			0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.07
Non-paralytic			0.03	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.02
Food Poisoning			0.13	0.16	0.11	0.18	0.18
Puerperal Pyrexia			17.87*	23.94*	10.22*	30.77*	47.37*
			Rates per 1,000 Live Births
Deaths :—
All causes under 1 year of age			27.6†	31.2	25.8	23.8	24.5
Enteritis and Diarrhoea under 2 years of age			1.1	1.3	0.5	0.7	0.7
Maternal Mortality :	A.115 Sepsis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Puerperium	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.l 19 Abortion with Sepsis	A. 120 Other Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Puerperium
Maternal Mortality :	A.115 Sepsis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Puerperium	A.116		A.117 Haemorrhage of Pregnancy and Childbirth	A.118 Abortion without mention of Sepsis or Toxaemia	A.l 19 Abortion with Sepsis
Number of Deaths: Walthamstow	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
England and Wales	61	13	147	59	31	47	138
Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births:
Walthamstow	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.95
England and Wales	0.09	0.02	0.21	0.09	0.04	0.07	0.20
* Per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births. † Per 1,000 Related Live Births.