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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 1950
[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 1950, with corresponding rates for England and Wales, 126 Great Towns, 148 Smaller Towns, and
for the County of Lond for comparison.
| Birthrate per 1,000 Total Population. | Annual Death-rate per 1,000 Pop Latio. | Death rate per 1,000 Births. | ??? | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes. | Typhoid & Paratyphoid | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Tuberculosis | Influenza | Small-pox | Poliomyeliti Enceph. | Pneumonia | Diarrhœa and Enteritis (under 2 years) | Total Deaths under One year | All Causes. | Puerperal Infection. | Other Causes. | ||
| England and Wales | 15.8 | 11.6 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.36 | 0.10 | - | 0.02 | 0.46 | 1.9 | 29.8 | 0.86 | 0.18 | 0.68 |
| 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 17.6 | 12.3 | o.oo | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.42 | 0.09 | - | 0.02 | 0.49 | 2.2 | 33.8 | Not available | ||
| 148 Smaller Towns (Estimated Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census, 1931) | 16.7 | 11.6 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0.10 | - | 0.02 | 0.45 | 1.6 | 29.4 | |||
| London | 17.8 | 11.8 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.39 | 0.07 | - | 0.01 | 0.48 | 1.0 | 26.3 | |||
| Barnes Borough | 11.4 | 10.8 | - | - | - | 0.29 | 0.05 | - | 0.02 | 0.2 | .07 | 20. 0 | - | - | - |