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Southall 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]
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| Total | Male | Female | Comparative figures for 1937 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births—Legitimate | 794 | 392 | 402 | 776 | |
| Illegitimate | 31 | 19 | 12 | 38 | |
| Stillbirths—Legitimate | 30 | 19 | 11 | 33 | |
| Illegitimate | 1 | 1 | - | ||
| Deaths | 453 | 249 | 204 | 474 | |
| Birth rate per 1,000 of estimated population | 16.34 | 15.79 | |||
| Stillbirth rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births | 36.21 | 38.95 | |||
| * Crude death rate per 1,000 of the estimated population | 8.64 | 9.19 | |||
| ‡Comparability factor | 1.14 | 1.14 | |||
| * Comparable death rate | 9.85 | 10.47 | |||
| Deaths from Puerperal Causes (Headings 29 and 30 of the Registrar-General's Short List) : | |||||
| No. 29. Puerperal sepsis | 2 | 2.36 | 2.37 | ||
| No. 30. Other puerperal causes | - | _ | — | ||
| Total | 2 | 2.36 | 2.37 | ||
| Death rate of infants under one year of age:— | |||||
| All infants per 1,000 live births | 65.45 | 58.96 | |||
| Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births | 59.20 | 52.83 | |||
| Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births | 258.06 | 184.2 | |||
| Deaths from cancer (all ages) | 57 | 70 | |||
| Deaths from measles (all ages) | 1 | - | |||
| Deaths from whooping cough (all ages) | 2 | 3 | |||
| Deaths from diarrhoea, etc. (under 2 years of age) | 8 | 10 | |||
*The estimated population includes the patients in the St. Bernard's Hospital whose
deaths however are not included in the rate. A more exact rate therefore could be obtained by
taking the population exclusive of patients in the St. Bernard's Hospital. The death rate on
this basis would be 9.12 and the comparable death rate would be 10.39.
J See Note 2 on page 12 of the report for 1934.
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