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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Chigwell 1953
[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, 1953. (Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly returns)
| 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 | 0.01 | 0.00 | ||
| Paratyphoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | ||
| Meningococcal infection | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.05 | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 1.39 | 1.50 | 1.44 | 1.02 | 1.26' | ||
| Whooping Cough | 3.58 | 3.72 | 3.38 | 3.30 | 7.55 | ||
| Diphtheria | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Erysipelas | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.10 | ||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Measles | 12.36 | 11.27 | 12.32 | 8.09 | 19.34 | ||
| Pneumonia | 0.84 | 0.92 | 0.76 | 0.73 | 0.56 | ||
| Acute poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis) | |||||||
| Paralytic | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.03 | ||
| Non-paralytic | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.07 | ||
| Food poisoning | 0.24 | 0.25 | 0.24 | 0.38 | 0.07 | ||
| Puerperal pyrexia | 18.23(a) | 24.33(a) | 12.46(a) : | 28.61(a) | 2.17 | ||
(a) notifications per 1,000 related births).
DEATHS:
| All Causes (corrected) | 11.4 | 12.2 | 11.3 | 12.5 | 9.00 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Whooping Cough | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 |
| Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 00 | 0.00 |
| Tuberculosis | 0.20 | 0.24 | 0.19 | 0.24 | 0.17 |
| Influenza | 0.16 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.15 | 0.05 |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Acute poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis) | |||||
| 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |
| Pneumonia | 0.55 | 0.59 | 0.52 | 0.64 | 0.45 |