[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wanstead and Woodford] page 8

Wanstead and Woodford 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wanstead and Woodford]

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Birth-rates, Civilian Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1951.

England and Wales, London, 126 Great Towns and 148 Smaller Towns. (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 Administrative County	Borough of WANSTEAD and WOODFORD
Births: (Rates per 1,000 Home Population)
Live	15.5	17.3	16.7	17 8	12.4
Still	0.36	0.45	0.38	0.37	0.34
Deaths:
All Causes	12.5	13.4	12.5	13.1	10.8
Typhoid and Paratyphoid	0.00	0.00	0.00	-	-
Whooping Cough	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02
Diphtheria	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
Tuberculosis	0.31	0.37	0.31	0.38	0.21
Influenza	0.38	0.36	0 38	0.23	0.26
Smallpox	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	-
Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.00	-
Pneumonia	0.61	0.65	0.63	0.61	0.68
Notifications:
Typhoid Fever	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	-
Paratyphoid Fever	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.01	-
Meningococcal Infection	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.03	-
Scarlet Fever	1.11	1.20	1.20	1.10	0.76
Whooping Cough	3.87	3.62	4.00	3.11	6.90
Diphtheria	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.01	-
Erysipelas	0.14	0.15	0.12	0.15	0.08
Smallpox	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	-
Measles	14.07	13.93	14.82	14.64	17.54
Pneumonia	0.99	1.04	0-96	0.72	0.79
Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis):
Paralytic	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02	-
Non-Paralytic	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02	-
Food Poisoning	0.13	0.15	0.08	0.23	0.11
Deaths: (Rates per 1,000 Live Births)
All causes under 1 year of age	29.6	33.9	27.6	26.4	14.2
Enteritis and Diarrhoea under 2 years	1.4	1.6	1.0	0.70	-
Notifications: Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still)
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia	10.66	13.77	8.08	14.90	26.6