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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
Barnes 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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Table 3.—Birth-rate, Death-rate, and Analysis of Mortality during the Year 1946, with corresponding rates for England and Wales, 126 Great Towns, 148 Smaller Towns, and for the County of London for comparison.
| BIRTH RATE PER 1,000 TOTAL POPULA TION. | Annual Death-rate per 1,000 Population. | Death rate per, l 000 Births. | Maternal Morality Hate per 1,000 Total Births | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes | Typhoid & Paratyphoid | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Influenza. | Small-pox | Measles. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years). | Total Deaths under One Year. | All Causes | Puerperal Infection. | Other Causes. | ||
| England and Wales | 19.1 | 11.5 | 0.00 | o.oo | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.15 | o.oo | 0.00 | 4.4 | 43 | 1.43 | 0.01 | 1.12 |
| 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London 148 Smaller Towns (Estimated Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census, 1931) | 22.2 | 12.7 | o.oo | o.oo | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.13 | o.oo | 0.01 | 6.1 | 46 | Not avail able | ||
| 21.3 | 11.7 | 0.00 | o.oo | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.14 | o.oo | o.oo | 2.8 | 37 | ||||
| London | 21.5 | 12.7 | o.oo | o.oo | 002 | 0.01 | 0.2 | — | 0.01 | 4.2 | 41 | |||
| Barnes Borough | 18.3 | 12.5 | — | — | — | — | 0.8 | — | — | 2 | 36 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 1.18 |