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 West Ham]
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T able XXXIX.
Comparative statistics of other areas.
Name of town | Population as estimated by the Registrar-General. mid-1937 | Per 1,000 population | Comparability factor (a.c.f.) | Adjusted death rate | Tuberculosis Death rate per 1,000 population | Infantile nortalty rate | Maternal mortality (per 1,000 total births) | ||||
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Birth rate | Crude death rate | From sepsis | From other causes | Total | |||||||
Pulmonary | Other forms | ||||||||||
Birmingham | 1,043,000 | 16.30 | 11.70 | 1.10 | 12.90 | 0.72 | 0.08 | 60 | 0.74 | 2 22 | 2.96 |
Bradford | 289,510 | 13.85 | 14.74 | 1.00 | 14.74 | 0.65 | 0.12 | 70 | 0.95 | 1.67 | 2.92 |
Bristol | 415,100 | 14.46 | 11.44 | 0.98 | 11.21 | 0.67 | 0.13 | 46 | 1.12 | 2.41 | 3.53 |
Cardiff | 220,200 | 15.40 | 12.60 | 1.06 | 13.30 | 0.82 | 0.17 | 65 | 0.85 | 2.82 | 3.67 |
Croydon | 242,300 | 13.50 | 11.56 | 0.96 | 11.08 | 0.56 | 0.08 | 60 | 0.30 | 3.28 | 3.57 |
Hull | 319,400 | 18.20 | 12.60 | 1.10 | 13.80 | 0.92 | 0.20 | 77 | 0.83 | 1.65 | 2.48 |
Leeds | 491,800 | 14.80 | 13.36 | 1.07 | 14.30 | 0.72 | 0.11 | 67 | 0.79 | 1.45 | 2.24 |
Leicester | 262,900 | 14.48 | 12.46 | 1.02 | 12.71 | 0.82 | 0.14 | 63 | 1.27 | 0.00 | 1.27 |
Liverpool | 867,110 | 19.29 | 13.21 | 1.15 | 15.19 | 0.79 | 0.13 | 82 | 0.58 | 1.73 | 2.31 |
London | 4,094,500 | 13.44 | 12.52 | 1.02 | 12.77 | 0.71 | 0.09 | 60 | 0.81 | 1.41 | 2.22 |
Manchester | 751,371 | 14.31 | 13.52 | 1.14 | 15.41 | 0.88 | 0.15 | 76 | 1.34 | 2.85 | 4.19 |
Newcastle | 290,400 | 16.50 | 13.30 | 1.13 | 15.03 | 0.93 | 0.19 | 91 | 1.00 | 3.21 | 4.21 |
Nottingham | 278,800 | 15.96 | 13.44 | 1.03 | 13.84 | 0.84 | 0.15 | 80 | 0.87 | 1.95 | 2.82 |
Plymouth | 210.460 | 14.60 | 13.06 | 0.98 | 12.79 | 0.69 | 0.07 | 46 | 2.19 | 3.13 | 5.32 |
Portsmouth | 256,200 | 14.88 | 11.50 | 0.99 | 11.38 | 0.55 | 0.07 | 44 | 0.00 | 1.51. | 1.51 |
Salford | 201,800 | 15.10 | 14.60 | 1.18 | 17.23 | 0.88 | 0.13 | 84 | 0.94 | 3.47 | 4.41 |
Sheffield | 518,200 | 15.37 | 12.53 | 1.13 | 14.16 | 0.69 | 0.11 | 55 | 1.57 | 1.81 | 3.37 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 272,800 | 16.70 | 13.10 | 1.22 | 16.00 | 0.80 | 0.14 | 81 | 0.84 | 3.75 | 4.59 |
Sunderland | 182,900 | 19.70 | 14.00 | 1.12 | 15.70 | 0.80 | 0.23 | 85 | 1.06 | 2.39 | 3.45 |
West Ham | 259,500 | 16.10 | 12.00 | 1.15 | 13.80 | 0.78 | 0.09 | 62 | 0.46 | 0.69 | 1.15 |