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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

Wanstead and Woodford 1961

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

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Table: Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1961 England and Wales and London (Provisional Figures based on Quarterly Returns)

Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1961 England and Wales and London (Provisional Figures based on Quarterly Returns)

England and WalesLondon Administrative CountyBorough of WANSTEAD and WOODFORD
(Rates per 1,000 Home Population)
Births:
Live17.418.713.07
Still0.340.340.16
Deaths:
All Causes12.011.911.8
Malignant Neoplasm, Lung and Bronchus0.490.670.46
Whooping Cough0.000.00—
Diphtheria0.000.00—
Tuberculosis0.070.100.02
Influenza0.150.080.13
Coronary Disease, Angina2.072.052.2
Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis0.000.00_
Pneumonia0.650.760.55
(Rates per 1,000 live births)
All causes under 1 year of age21.621.517.5
Enteritis and Diarrhoea under 2 years of age0.560.34—