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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
Chingford 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]
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Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality and Case-notes for certain Infectious Diseases in the Year 1940.
(Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns)
| England and Wales | 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London | 148 Smaller Towns Resident Pop.: 25,000—50,000 (1931 Census) | London Administrative County | Chingford | England and Wales | 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London | 148 Smaller Towns Resident Pop.: 25,000—50,000 (1931 Census) | London Administrative County | Chingford | ||
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| Births : | Rates per 1,000 Population | Deaths under 1 year of age | Rates per 1,000 Live Births | ||||||||
| Live | 14.6 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 13.7 | 15.66 | 55.0 | 61.0 | 54.0 | 50.0 | 45 | |
| Still | 0.55 | 0.64 | 0.55 | 0.44 | 0.38 | ||||||
| Deaths: | Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age | 4.6 | 5.9 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 1.8 | |||||
| All Causes | 14.3 | 15.8 | 12.8 | 17.8 | 13.13 | ||||||
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.03 | ||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | — | — | — | — | — | Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still | |||||
| Whooping Cough | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | — | ||||||
| Diphtheria | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.01 | - | ||||||
| Influenza | 0.32 | 0.29 | 0.30 | 0.18 | 0.16 | Maternal Mortality: (Excluding Abortion) Puerperal Infection (No. 147) | 0.52 | Not available | |||
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| Measles | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | — | ||||||
| Notifications : | Others | 1.64 | — | ||||||||
| Enteric | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.05 | Total | 2.16 | ||||
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 0.32 | 0.33 | 0.29 | 0.28 | 0.11 | ||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 1.63 | 1.53 | 1.57 | 0.82 | 1.26 | Notifications: | |||||
| Whooping Cough.. | 1.34 | 1.29 | 1.35 | 0.22 | 0.03 | Puerperal Fever | 11.96 | 13.90 | 9.73 | 3.34 | 8.36 |
| Diphtheria | 1.16 | 1.29 | 1.21 | 0.61 | 0.16 | „ Pyrexia | 13.30 Includ-ingPuer-peral Fever | ||||
| Erysipelas | 0.33 | 0.36 | 0.30 | 0.35 | 0.38 | ||||||
| Smallpox | —- | - | — | — | — | ||||||
| Measles | 10.24 | 9.23 | 9.99 | 1.78 | 0.81 | ||||||
| Pneumonia | 1.20 | 1.37 | 1.00 | 0.87 | 1.18 | ||||||