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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 1949
[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
| England and Wales | 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns (including London) | 148 Smaller Towns (Resident Pop. 25.000-50,000 at 193 1 Census) | London Administrative County | Chingrord | England and Wales | 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns (including London) | 148 Smaller Towns (Resident Pop. 25,000-50.000 at 193 1 Census) | London Administrative County | Chingford | |||||
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| Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population:— | Deaths: | Rates per 1,000 Live Births:— | ||||||||||||
| Live births | 16.7 (a) | 18.7 | 18.0 | 18.5 | 14.1 | All causes under 1 year of age | 32 (b) | 37 | 30 | 29 | 24.9 | |||
| Still births | 0.39(a) | 0.47 | 0.40 | 0.37 | 0.36 | |||||||||
| Deaths: All Causes | 11.7(a) | 12.5 | 11.6 | 12.2 | 8.3 | |||||||||
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | Enteritis and Diarrhoea under 2 years of age | 3.0 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 1.7 | — | |||
| Whooping Cough | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — | |||||||||
| Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | |||||||||
| Tuberculosis | 0.45 | 0.52 | 0.42 | 0.52 | 0.31 | |||||||||
| Influenza | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.11 | 0.18 | Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births | ||||||||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | — | — | Notifications (Corrected): | ||||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | - | Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia | 6.31 | 8.14 | 5.30 | 6.82 | 5.69 | |||
| Pneumonia | 0.51 | 0.56 | 0.49 | 0.59 | 0.39 | |||||||||
| Notifications (Corrected): | ||||||||||||||
| Typhoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — | |||||||||
| Paratyphoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | - | Maternal Mortality in England and Wales: | ||||||||
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.02 | - | |||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 1.63 | 1.72 | 1.83 | 1.46 | 2.16 | |||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 2.39 | 2.44 | 2.39 | 1.70 | 3.58 | |||||||||
| Diphtheria | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.02 | International List No. and Cause | Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births | Rates per million women aged 15-44 | ||||||
| Erysipelas | 0.19 | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.17 | 0.35 | |||||||||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | |||||||||
| Measles | 8.95 | 8.91 | 9.18 | 8.54 | 10.28 | |||||||||
| Pneumonia | 0.80 | 0.91 | 0.65 | 0.55 | 1.71 | |||||||||
| 140. Abortion with Sepsis | 0.11 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.18 | 0.08 | |||||||||
| 141. Abortion without Sepsis | 0.05 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Acute Polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 147. Puerperal Infections | 0.11 | |||||||
| 142,146, 148,150. Other maternal causes | 0.71 | Chingford | ||||||||||||
| F^ood poisoning | 1 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.19 | 0.08 | - | ||||||||
| (a) Rates rer 1,000 total population (b) Per 1,000 reiated live-births | ||||||||||||||