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 Chigwell]
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Comparative Tables of Infectious Disease Notification and Death Rates per 1,000 of the population in 1949
England and Wales | 126 C.B's and Great Towns including London | 148 Smaller Towns (Resident pop. 25.000—50,000 at 1931 Census) | London Admin. . County | Chigwell Urban District | |
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Notifications (Corrected) | |||||
Typhoid fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
Paratyphoid fever | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Cerebro-spinal fever | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.00 |
Scarlet fever | 1.63 | 1.72 | 1.83 | 1.46 | 1.00 |
Whooping cough | 2.39 | 2.44 | 2.39 | 1.70 | 3.81 |
Diphtheria | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.00 |
Erysipelas | 0.19 | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.17 | 0.34 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Measles | 8.95 | 8.91 | 9.18 | 8.54 | 13.21 |
Pneumonia | 0.08 | 0.91 | 0.65 | 0.55 | 0.37 |
Acute poliomyelitis | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.18 | 0.70 |
Acute polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
Food poisoning | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.19 | 0.83 |
Deaths | |||||
Typhoid and paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Whooping cough | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Tuberculosis | 0.45 | 0.52 | 0.42 | 0.52 | 0.39 |
Influenza | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.11 | 0.10 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | — | — |
Acute poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.05 |
Pneumonia | 0.51 | 0.56 | 0.49 | 0.59 | 9.41 |