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]
This page requires JavaScript
Table 3. — Birth-rate, Death-rate, and Analysis of Mortality from Certain Causes during the Year 1959, with corresponding rates for England and Wales, and for the County of London for comparison.
AREA AND POPULATION | Live Births | Deaths (excluding Stillbirths) | DEATHS FROM | Stillbirths | Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Malignent neoplasm lung, bronchus | Whooping cough | Diphtheria | Tuberculosis (all forms) | Influenza | Acute Poliomyelitis | Pneumonia | Coronary and arteriosclerotic heart disease | |||||
England and Wales (45,386,000) | 16.5 | 11.6 | 0.46 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.17 | 0.00 | 0.60 | 1.87 | 20.9 | 22.2 | |
London (3,204,000) | 17.3 | 11.9 | 0.64 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.18 | 0.00 | 0.82 | 1.89 | 19.3 | 22.3 | |
Barnes Borough (38,880) | 12.0 | 11.3 | 0.77 | — | – | 0.05 | 0.36 | – | 0.82 | 2.6 | 16.8 | 17.1 |
Live birth and death rates per 1,000 population. Stillbirth rates per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
Infantile mortality rates per 1.000 live births.