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 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Birth Rate, Death Rate and Analysis of Mortality.
Table 7.
| 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 | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Tuber culosis | Influenza | Smallpox | Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | Pneumonia | Diarrhoea and Enteritis {under two years) | Total Deaths under 1 year | |
| England and Wales | 16.7 | 0.39 | 11.7 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.45 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.51 | 3.0 | 32 |
| 126 County Boroughs and great towns, including London | 18.7 | 0.47 | 12.5 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.52 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.56 | 3.8 | 37 |
| 148 smaller towns, resident populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 census | 18.0 | 0.40 | 11.6 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.42 | 0.14 | - | 0.02 | 0.49 | 2.4 | 30 |
| London Admin. County | 18.5 | 0.37 | 12.2 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.52 | 0.11 | - | 0.01 | 0.59 | 1 .7 | 29 |
| Twickenham | 14.99 | 0.30 | {a) 11.26 (6) 11.03 | — | 0.01 | — | 0.39 | 0.12 | — | 0.02 | 0.52 | 1.9 | 21.21 |
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A dash (— ) signifies that there were no deaths
(a) crude (b) adjusted