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Mitcham 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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Table: Birth-rates, Civilian Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year1946.(Provisional figures based on weekly and quarterly returns.)

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Birth-rates, Civilian Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year1946.(Provisional figures based on weekly and quarterly returns.)

	England and Wales	126 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London	148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 census)	London Administrative County	Mitcham
	Rates per 1,000 civilian population
Births—
Live	16.1‡	19.1	19.2	15.7	18.01
Still	0.46‡	0.58	0.53	0.40	0.35
Deaths—
All causes	11.4‡	13.5	12.3	13.8	10.19
Typhoid and Paratyphoid	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Scarlet fever	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Whooping cough	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.02
Diphtheria	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	—
Influenza	0.08	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.04
Smallpox	0.00	–	–	–	–
Measles	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.02
Notifications—
Typhoid fever	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	—
Paratyphoid fever	0.01	0.00	0.01	0.00	—
Cerebro-spinal fever	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.05
Scarlet fever	1.89	2.02	2.03	1.67	2.97
Whooping cough	1.64	1.65	1.47	1.35	1.77
Diphtheria	0.46	0.52	0.56	0.31	1.17
Erysipelas	0.25	0.28	0.24	0.31	0.27
Smallpox	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Measles	11.67	10.89	11.19	9.03	13.66
Pneumonia	0.87	1.03	0.72	0.78	0.61
	Rates per 1,000 live births
Deaths under one year of age	46†	54	43	63	31
Deaths from diarrhœa and enteritis under two years of age	5.6	7.8	4.5	7.6	2.0
	Rates per 1,000 total births (live and still)
Maternal mortality
Abortion with sepsis	0.25				—
,, without sepsis	0.08				—
Puerperal infections	0.24	Not available			—
Other	1.22				1.00
Notifications—
Puerperal fever	9.93	12.65	8.81	3.6	8.06
Puerperal pyrexia	9.93	12.65	8.81	15.87*
	Mortality per million women aged 15.45
Abortion—
With sepsis	18	Not available
Without sepsis	6	Not available

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* Including Puerperal fever. A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths.
‡ Rates per 1,000 total population. † 1.000 related births.

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Mitcham 1945

Table: Birth-rates, Civilian Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year1946.(Provisional figures based on weekly and quarterly returns.)

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