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 Wanstead and Woodford]
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Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1956. England and Wales, London, 160 Great Towns and 160 Smaller Towns (Provisional Figures based on Quarterly Returns).
England and Wales | 160 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London | 160 Smaller Towns (Resident populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1951 Census) | London Administrative County | Borough of WANSTEAD and WOODFORD | |
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(Rates per 1,000 Home Population) | |||||
Live | 15.7 | 15.60 | 15.6 | 15.9 | 11.20 |
Still | 0.37 | 0.37 | 0.36 | 0.33 | 0.16 |
All Causes | 11.70 | 11.6 | 11.60 | 11.7 | 11.85 |
Malignant Neoplasm Lung and Bronchus | 0.41 | 0.47 | 0,39 | 0.58 | 0.55 |
Whooping Cough | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - |
Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - |
Tuberculosis | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.11 | 0.14 | 0.10 |
Influenza | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | — |
Coronary Disease —Angina | 1.67 | 1.68 | 1.71 | 1.70 | 1.52 |
Acute Poliomyelitis & Polioencephalitis | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - |
Pneumonia | 0.52 | 0.57 | 0.45 | 0.67 | 0,36 |
(Rates per 1,000 Live Births) | |||||
All causes under 1 year of age | 23.8 | 24.0 | 24.1 | 21.4 | 26.6 |
Enteritis and Diarrhoea under 2 years | 0.51 | * | * | * | - |
**Figures not available. |