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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Birth Rate, Death Rate and Analysis of Mortality. Provisional Figures.
| 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 | A cute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | Pneumonia | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under two years) | Total Deaths under 1 year | ||
| England and Wales | 15.2 | 0.37 | 11.3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.18 | 0.04 | - | 0.00 | 0.41 | 0.00 | 25.5 | |
| 160 County Boroughs and great towns, including London | 15.2 | 0.36 | 11.1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0.03 | - | 0.00 | 0.45 | 0.00 | 25.2 | |
| 160 smaller towns, resident populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1951 census | 14.9 | 0.36 | 11.3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.18 | 0.04 | - | 0.00 | 0.41 | 0.00 | 26.6 | |
| London Admin. County | 15.2 | 0.31 | 10.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.20 | 0.02 | — | 0.00 | 0.48 | 0.45 | 20.7 | |
| Twickenham | (a) 12.73 | 0.24 | (a) 11.14 | — | — | — | 0.22 | 0.07 | — | - | 0.39 | - | 14.25 | |
| (b) 12.98 | (b) 10.25 | |||||||||||||
| A dash ( — ) signifies that there were no deaths (a) crude (b) adjusted | ||||||||||||||