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Chigwell 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chigwell]
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Birth Rates, Civilian Death Rates, Analysis of
Mortality and Case Rates for certain Infectious
Diseases in the year 1947.
(Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly
Returns).
126 County 148 smaller
Boroughs Towns(Resi- London
England and dent Popula- Adm. Chigvrell
and Great Towns tions 25,000 County
Wales including to50,000at
London 1931 Census)
Rates per 1,000 population:-
| Live Births | 20.5 | 23.3 | 22.2 | 22.7 | 20.7 |
| Still Births | 0.50 | 0.62 | 0.54 | 0.49 | 0.46 |
| Deaths:- | |||||
| All Causes | 12.0 | 12.0 | 11.9 | 12.8 | 9.8 |
| Typhoid & Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Scarlet Fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Whooping Cough | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.06 |
| Diphtheria | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Influenza | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.06 |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Measles | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Notifications:- | |||||
| Typhoid | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Paratyphoid | |||||
| Fever Cerebro - spinal | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Fever | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.00 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1.37 | 1.54 | 1.37 | 1.31 | 0.76 |
| Whooping Cough | 2.22 | 2.41 | 2.02 | 2.80 | 4.04 |
| Diphtheria | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.00 |
| Erysipelas | 0.19 | 0.21 | 0.18 | 0.22 | 0.23 |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Measles | 9.41 | 9.13 | 9.58 | 5.29 | 11.37 |
| Pneumonia | 0.79 | 0.89 | 0.68 | 0.64 | 0.46 |