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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 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Deaths of illegitimate infants.
The death rate of illegitimate infants daring 1946
was 80.81 per 1,000, compared with 62.5 for the previous year.
The corresponding death-rate of legitimate children was 23.17
(46.5 for 1945).
REVIEW OF THE COMPARATIVE VITAL AND MORTALITY STATISTICS FOR THE BOROUGH OF TWICKENHAM, TOGETHER WITH THOSE FOR ENGLAND AND WALES FOR YEARS 1937 - 1946 INCLUSIVE
| Birth Rate | Death Rate | Infantile Mortality Rate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YEAR | Twick. | Eng. and Wales. | Twick. | Eng. and Wales. | Twick. | Eng. and Wales. |
| 1937. | 14.9 | 14.9 | (a)11.08 | 12.4 | 35.4 | 58 |
| (b)10.96 | ||||||
| 1938. | 14.4 | 15.1 | (a) 9.91 | 11.6 | 45.8 | 53 |
| (b) 9.81 | ||||||
| 1939. | 14.2 | 15.0 | (a)10,46 | 12.1 | 26.4 | 50 |
| (b)10.35 | ||||||
| 1940. | 14.67 | 14.6 | (a)14.8 | 14.3 | 45.8 | 55 |
| (b)14.9. | ||||||
| 1941. | 13.4 | 14.2 | 13.0 | 12.9 | 70.95 | 59 |
| 1942. | 16.49 | 15.8 | 11.6 | 11.6 | 53.1 | 49 |
| 1943. | 17.7 | 16.5 | 12.3 | 12.1 | 47.99 | 49 |
| 1944. | 18.5 | 17.6 | 12.8 | 11.6 | 37.1 | 46 |
| 1945. | 16.76 . . | 16.1 | 12.15 | 11.4 | 48.02 | 46 |
| 1946. | 19.01 | 19.1 | 10.89 | 11.5 | 26.09 | 43 |
| (a) Crude | ||||||
| (b) Adjusted | ||||||
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