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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
Mitcham 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]
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Birth-rates, Civilian Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1944. (Provisional figures based on weekly and quarterly returns.)
| England and Wales | 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London | 148 Smaller Towns (Eesident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 census) | London Administrative County | Mitcham | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rates per 1,000 civilian population | |||||
| Births— | |||||
| Live | 17.6 ‡ | 20.3 | 20.9 | 15.0 | 18.99 |
| Still | 0.50‡ | 0.64 | 0.61 | 0.42 | 0.35 |
| Deaths— | |||||
| All causes | 11.6‡ | 13.7 | 12.4 | 15.7 | 11.88 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — |
| Scarlet fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — |
| Whooping cough | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.04 |
| Diphtheria | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
| Influenza | 0.12 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.08 | 0.04 |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | - |
| Notifications— | |||||
| Typhoid fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — |
| Paratyphoid fever | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — |
| Cerebro-spinal fever | 0.05 | OOP | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.06 |
| Scarlet fever | 2.40 | 2.41 | 2.67 | 1.57 | 1.88 |
| Whooring cough | 2.49 | 2.49 | 2.29 | 2.90 | 3.22 |
| Diphtaeria | 0.58 | 0.67 | 0.69 | 0.31 | 0.19 |
| Erys'pelas | 0.29 | 0.32 | 0.28 | 0.37 | 0.25 |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — |
| Measles | 4.16 | 4.51 | 3.94 | 2.98 | 2.18 |
| Pneumonia | 0.97 | 1.13 | 0.82 | 0.93 | 0.72 |
| Rates per 1,000 live births | |||||
| Deaths under one year of age Deaths from diarrhoea and | 46t | 52 | 44 | 61 | 36 |
| enteritis under two years of age | 4.8 | 7.3 | 4.4 | 10.1 | 3.1 |
| Rates per 1,000 total births (live and still) | |||||
| Maternal mortality | |||||
| Abortion with sepsis | 0.31 | Not available | 1.00 | ||
| „ without sepsis | 0.09 | — | |||
| Puerperal infections | 0.28 | — | |||
| Other | 1.25 | - | |||
| Notifications— | |||||
| Puerperal fever | 10.34 | 13.13 | 9.25 | 3.61 | 5.02 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 14.14* | ||||
| Mortality per million women aged 15.45 | |||||
| Abortion— | |||||
| With sepsis | 25 | Not available | |||
| Without sepsis | 7 | ||||
| * Including Puerperal fever. A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths, ‡ Eates per 1,000 total population. † Per 1,000 related births. | |||||