London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Twickenham 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Birth Rate, Death Rate and Analysis of Mortality during 1938.
| Birth Rate per 1,000 total population. | Annual Death Rate per 1.000 population | Rate per 1,000 live births. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live births | Still births | All causes | Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers | Smallpox | Measles | Scarlet fever | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Influenza | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years) | Total deaths under 1 year. | |
| England and Wales | 15.1 | 0.60 | 11.6 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.11 | 5.5 | 53 |
| 126 County Boroughs and great towns, including London | 15.0 | 0.65 | 11.7 | 0.00 | - | 0,05 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.10 | 7.8 | 57 |
| 148 smaller towns (re-sident populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 census | 15.4 | 0.60 | 11.0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.11 | 3.6 | 51 |
| London | 13.4 | 0.48 | 11.4 | 0.00 | - | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 13.1 | 57 |
| Twickenham | 14.4 | 0.53 | 9.81 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.08 | 8.6 | 45.8 |