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 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]#
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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 | T uber-culosis | Influenza | Smallpox | A cute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | Pneumonia | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under two years) | Total Deaths under 1 year | |
| England and Wales | 15.5 | 0.35 | 11.4 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.55 | 1.1 | 26.8 |
| 160 County Boroughs and great towns, including London | 17.0 | 0.43 | 12.2 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.24 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.59 | 1.3 | 30.8 |
| 160 smaller towns, resident populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1951 census | 15.7 | 0.34 | 11.3 | - | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.19 | 0.17 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.52 | 0.9 | 24.3 |
| London Admin. County | 17.5 | 0.38 | 12.5 | — | 0.00 | — | 0.24 | 0.15 | — | 0.01 | 0.64 | 1.1 | 24.8 |
| 13.26 | 0.19 | (a) 10.88 | — | 0.00 | — | 0.25 | 0.28 | — | 0.02 | 0.48 | — | 20.06 | |
| (b) 10.01 | |||||||||||||
| A dash ( — ) signifies that there were no deaths (a) crude (b) adjusted | |||||||||||||