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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
Feltham 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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DEATHS
Male 202 Female 177 Total 379
Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated home population—
Crude Death Rate 7.2
Comparability Factor 1.59
Adjusted Death Rate 11.5
Death Rate from pulmonary tuberculosis 0.03
Death Rate from Cancer 1.6
Birth and Death Rates for England and Wales, 1960
Birth Rate 171
Still Birth Rate (per 1,000 live and still births) 19.7
Death Rate 11.5
Deaths under one year of age 217
Deaths under four weeks of age 15.6
Maternal causes, excluding abortion 031
Due to abortion 0.08
Total maternal mortality 0.39
| * | * | † | † | ‡ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rirth Rate | Death Rate | Still Birth | Maternal | Infant Death Rate | ||||
| Under | Under | |||||||
| Year | Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | Rate | Deaths | 1yr. | 4 wks. |
| 1959 | 15.6 | 15.0 | 8.6 | 13.5 | 11.05 | nil | 24.8 | 19.9 |
| 1958 | 16.6 | 16.1 | 7.4 | 11.7 | 10.55 | nil | 21.32 | 16.58 |
| 1957 | 16.3 | 15.81 | 7.0 | 11.13 | 23.95 | nil | 19.63 | 15.95 |
| 1956 | 16.7 | 1619 | 6.6 | 10.5 | 14.38 | nil | 21.89 | 18.24 |
| 1955 | 16.0 | 15.84 | 7.1 | 10.5 | 13.87 | nil | 15.34 | 7.67 |
| 1954 | 15.76 | 15.60 | 5.87 | 8.68 | 15.54 | 1.29 | 17.10 | 13.15 |
| 1953 | 16.41 | 16.24 | 7.49 | 11.08 | 15.28 | 2.54 | 24.57 | 18.11 |
| 1952 | 16.98 | 16.47 | 6.22 | 8.77 | 18.61 | nil | 20.22 | 13.9 |
| 1951 | 15.76 | 15.28 | 7.03 | 9.91 | 15.19 | nil | 18.23 | 11.22 |
| 1950 | 15.52 | 15.05 | 7.11 | 10.02 | 20.20 | 1.43 | 25.03 | — |
| * Rate per 1,000 estimated home population. | ||||||||
| †ate per 1,000 total births. | ||||||||
| ‡Rate per 1,000 live births. | ||||||||
Table
| Male | Female | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Tuberculosis—Respiratory | 2 | — | 2 |
| 2. Tuberculosis—Other | — | 1 | |
| 3. Syphilitic disease | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4. Diphtheria | — | — | — |
| 5. Whooping Cough | — | — | — |
| 6. Meningococcal infection | — | — | — |
| 7. Acute poliomyelitis | — | — | — |
| 8. Measles | — | — | — |
| 9. Other infective and parasitic diseases | - | - | -_ |
| 10. Malignant neoplasm, stomach | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 11. Malignant neoplasm, lung, bronchus | 15 | 2 | 17 |