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 Barnes]
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Table 3.—Birth-rate, Death-rate, and Analysis of Mortality during the Year 1954, with
corresponding rates for england and wales, 160 great towns, 160 smaller towns, and
for the County of London for comparison.
Birth-rate per l,000 Total Population. | Annual Death-rate per 1,000 Population. | Death-rate per 1,000 Births. | Maternal Mortality Rate per 1,000 Total Births | ||||||||||||
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All Causes. | Typhoid & Paratyphoid | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Tuberculosis | Influenza. | Small-pox | Poliomyelitis Enceph. | Pneumonia | Diarrhœa and Enteritis (under 2 years). | Total Deaths under One Year. | Total Maternal Mortality | Maternal causes (excluding abortion) | Due to Abortion | ||
England and Wales | 15.2 | 11.4 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.18 | 0.19 | — | 0.01 | 1.93 | 0.8 | 23.0 | 0.69 | 0.58 | 0.11 |
160 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 16.8 | 12.0 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.20 | 0.16 | — | 0.01 | 2.00 | 0.8 | 29.2 | Not available | ||
160 Smaller Towns (Estimated Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census, 1951) | 15.4 | 11.4 | 0.00 | 0.01 | o.oo | 0.17 | 0.18 | — | 0.01 | 1.97 | 0.5 | 23.8 | |||
London | 17.5 | 11.7 | — | 0.00 | o.oo | 0.19 | 0.02 | — | o.oo | 0.49 | 0.00 | 15.4 | |||