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Chigwell 1952
[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, 1952.
(Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns)
NOTIFICATIONS (Corrected).
| England and Wales | 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London. | 148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 census) | London Adm. County | Chigwell U.D. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typhoid Fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Paratyphoid Fever | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.00 | ||
| Meningococcal infection | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 1.53 | 1.75 | 1.58 | 1.56 | 3.75 | ||
| Whooping Cough | 2.61 | 2.74 | 2.57 | 1.66 | 3.75 | ||
| Diphtheria | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 001 | 0.02 | ||
| Erysipelas | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.09 | ||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Measles | 8 86 | 10.11 | 8.49 | 9.23 | 10.90 | ||
| Pneumonia | 0.72 | 0.80 | 0.62 | 0.57 | 0.46 | ||
| Acute poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis) | |||||||
| Paralytic | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.11 | ||
| Non-paralytic | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 003 | 0.02 | ||
| Food poisoning | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.11 | 0.18 | 0.23 | ||
| Puerperal pyrexia | 17.87(a) | 23.94(a) | 10.22(a) | 30.77(a) | 2.10 | ||
| (a) notifications per 1,000 related births). | |||||||
| DEATHS. | |||||||
| Typhoid & Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 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 | 0.02 | ||
| Tuberculosis | 0.24 | 0.28 | 0.22 | 0.31 | 0.17 | ||
| Influenza | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.03 | ||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Acute poliomyelitis(in-cluding polioencephalitis) | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | ||
| Pneumonia | 0.47 | 0.52 | 0.43 | 0.58 | 0.39 | ||