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
Chingford 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]
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(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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| Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population:— | Deaths under 1 year of age | Rates per 1,000 Live Births:— | |||||||||
| Live | 15.8 | | 17.3 | 18.4 | 14.0 | 17.6 | 49 | 59 | 46 | 60 | 28.5 | |
| Still | 0.54 1 | 0.66 | 0.62 | 0.48 | 0.37 | ||||||
| Deaths from Diarrhœa and Enteritis under 2 years of age | 5.2 | 7.5 | 4.8 | 8.6 | 1.5 | ||||||
| All Causes | 11.6 | 13.3 | 12.1 | 13.9 | 7.5 | ||||||
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 1 0.00 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 0.00 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | _ | ||||||
| Whooping Cough- | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.04 | — | ||||||
| Diphtheria | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.02 | - | ||||||
| Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still) | |||||||||||
| Influenza | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.05 | ||||||
| Smallpox | —- | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Measles | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 | Maternal Mortality: (Excluding Abortion) | |||||
| Typhoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | — | Puerperal Infection (No. 147) | |||||
| Paratyphoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — | 0.42 | Not available. | ||||
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 0.14 | 0.17 | 0.12 | 0.15 | 0.08 | Others | 1.59 | — | |||
| Total | 2.01 | — | |||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 2 19 | 2.49 | 2.34 | 1.86 | 4.92 | Notifications: | |||||
| Whooping Cough | 1.73 | 1.97 | 1.58 | 2.72 | 1.98 | ||||||
| Diphtheria | 1.05 | 1.35 | 0.91 | 0.76 | 0.11 | ||||||
| Erysipelas | 0.30 | 0.36 | 0.26 | 0.43 | 0.21 | ||||||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | — | Puerperal Fever | 12.61 | 15.94 | 10 80 | 3.10 | 4.4 |
| Measles | 7.46 | 9.27 | 7.39 | 8.62 | 13.3 | „ Pyrexia | |||||
| Pneumonia | 1.07 | 1.30 | 0.94 | 0.94 | 1.7 | 17.69 | |||||
| A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths. | |||||||||||