[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford] page 36

Chingford 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]

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Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Death-rates, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year, 1937.

England and Wales, London 125 Great Towns and 148 Smaller Towns.

(Provisional Figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns)

	England and Wales	125 County Boro's and Great Towns including London	148 smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census)	London Administrative County	Chingford
	Rates per 1,000 Population
Births :—
Live	14.9	14.9	15.3	13.3	16.3
Still	0.60	0.67	0.64	0.54	0.47

All Causes	12.4	12.5	11.9	12.3	8.8
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00
Smallpox	—-	—	—	—	—
Measles	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.01	0.00
Scarlet fever	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00
Whooping Cough	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.06	0.05
Diphtheria .	0.07	0.08	0.05	0.05	0.02
Influenza	0.45	0.39	0.42	0.38	0.33
Violence (including suicide)	0.54	0.45	0.42	0.51	0.44
Notifications:—
Smallpox	0.00	—	0.00	—	—
Scarlet fever	2.33	2.56	2.42	2.09	1.7
Diphtheria	1.49	1.81	1.38	1.93	0.61
Enteric fever	0.05	0.06	0.04	0.05	0.30
Erysipelas	0.37	0.43	0.34	0.44	0.27
Pneumonia	1.36	1.58	1.20	1.18	0.90
	Rates per 1,000 Live Births
Deaths under 1 year of age	58	62	55	60	44
Deaths from Diarrhoea 1 and Enteritis under > 2 years of age J	5.8	7.9	3.2	12.0	6.7
Maternal Mortality:—
Puerperal Sepsis	0.97	Not available.			—
Others	2.26
Total	3.23
	Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still)
Maternal Mortality:—
Puerperal Sepsis	0.94	Not available.			—
Others	2.17
Total	3.11
Notificatiovs:—
Puerperal fever	13.93	17.59	11.52	4.15	11.5
Puerperal pyrexia	13.93	17.59	11.52	14.34	11.5