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 Southall-Norwood]
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Table N o . 3.
Vital Statistics compared with other Areas.
Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternai, Death-rates, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1935. (England and Wales, London, 121 Great Towns and 140 Smaller Towns.)
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England and Wales | London Administrative County | 121 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London | 140 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census) | Southall-Norwood | |
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Rates per 1,000 Population | |||||
14.7 | 13.3 | 14.8 | 14.8 | 16.76 | |
Still | 0.62 | 0.52 | 0.68 | 0.64 | 0.54 |
11.7 | 11.4 | 11.8 | u.2 | 8.25 | |
Typhoid & Paratyphoid fevers | — | — | — | — | — |
Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — |
Measles | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.00 |
Scarlet fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.04 |
Whooping cough | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.00 |
Diphtheria | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.10 |
Influenza | 0.18 | 0.11 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.00 |
Violence | 0.52 | 0.51 | 0.45 | 0.41 | 0.64 |
Scarlet fever | 2.96 | 2.64 | 3.19 | 2.75 | 2.52 |
Diphtheria | 1.60 | 2.25 | 1.96 | 1.34 | 1.39 |
Enteric fever | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.04 |
Erysipelas | 0.42 | 0.45 | 0.48 | 0.37 | 0.47 |
Pneumonia | 1.15 | 0.89 | 1.36 | 0.98 | 0.68 |
Rates per 1,000 Live Births | |||||
Deaths under 1 year of age | 57 | 58 | 62 | 55 | 46 |
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age | 5.7 | 11.2 | 7.9 | 3.8 | 4.9 |
1.68 | | Not av ailable j | 1.23 | |||
Others | 2.42 | 3^70 | |||
Total | 4.10 | 4.93 | |||
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still) | |||||
1.61 | Not avail able | 1.19 | |||
Others | 2.32 | 3.60 | |||
Total | 3.93 | 4.79 | |||
Puerperal fever | 3.60 | 4.32 | 4.55 | 2.76 | 3.60 |
Puerperal pyrexia | 9.44 | 11.89 | 11.14 | 8.25 | 10.77 |