Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]
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Birth-rates, Civilian Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality and Case-rates for certain Infectious
Diseases in the year 1948.
(Provisional figures based on 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 Civilian PoDulation : — | Deaths : | Rates per 1.000 Live Births : — | ||||||||
Live Births | 17.9 (a) | 20.0 | 19.2 | 20.1 | 15.9 | All causes under 1 year of age | 34(b) | 39 | 32 | 31 | 21.5 |
Still Births | 0.42(a) | 0.52 | 0.43 | 0.39 | 0.36 | ||||||
Deaths: All Causes | 10.8(a) | 11.6 | 10.7 | 11.6 | 7.3 | Enteritis and Diarrhoea | |||||
Typhoid and Paratyphoid. . | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | _ | under 2 years age | 3.3 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 2.4 | |
Whooping Cough | 0.02 | 0.0,2 | 0.02 | 0.01 | — | ||||||
Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | — | ||||||
Tuberculosis | 0.51 | 0,59 | 0.46 | 0.63 | 0.45 | ||||||
Influenza | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.02 | — | Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births. | |||||
Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | Notifications: (Corrected) | ||||||
Pneumonia Notifications (Corrected) | 0.41 | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.54 | 0.34 | Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia . . | 6.89 | 8.90 | 4.71 | 7.34(c) | 1.31 |
Typhoid Fever . . | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | — | ||||||
Paratyphoid | |||||||||||
Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — | ||||||
Cerebro-spinal Fever | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.06 | Maternal Mortality in England and Wales : | |||||
Scarlet Fever .. | 1.73 | 1.90 | 1.82 | 1.37 | 1.-67 | ||||||
Whooping Cough | 3.42 | 3.51 | 3.31 | 3.13 | 4.07 | Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and still)Births | Rates per million women aged 15-44 | ||||
Diphtheria | 0.08 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.10 | — | ||||||
Erysipelas | 0.21 | 0.23 | 0.21 | 0.22 | 0.27 | ||||||
Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Measles | 9.34 | 9.75 | 8.84 | 9.17 | 7.61 | ||||||
Pneumonia | 1 0.73 | 0.84 | 0.60 | 0.57 | 1.67 | 140 Abortion with Sepsis | 0.11 | 9 | |||
Acute | 141 Abortion without Sepsis | 0.05 | 4 | ||||||||
Poliomyelitis | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 147 Puerperal infections | 0.13 | Chingform |