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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 1946
[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 1946. (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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bates per 1,000 civilian population | ||||||
| Births— | ||||||
| Live | 19.1 ‡ | 22.2 | 21.3 | 21.5 | 20.3 | |
| Still | 0.53‡ | 0.67 | 0.59 | 0.54 | 0.55 | |
| Deaths— | ||||||
| All causes | 11.5 ‡ | 12.7 | 11.7 | 12.7 | 9.2 | |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Scarlet fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Whooping cough | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.00 | |
| Diphtheria | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |
| Influenza | 0.15 | 0.13 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.09 | |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | — | — | — | — | |
| Measles | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |
| Notifications— | ||||||
| Typhoid fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |
| Paratyphoid fever Cerebro-spinal fever | 0.02 0:05 | 0.02 0.05 | 0.01 0.04 | 0.01 0.06 | 0.01 0.01 | |
| Scarlet fever | 1.39 | 1.51 | 1.33 | 1.42 | 1.5 | |
| Whooping cough | 2.28 | 2.48 | 2.05 | 2.22 | 3.83 | |
| Diphtberia | 0.28 | 0.32 | 0.31 | 0.24 | 0.53 | |
| Erysipelas | 0.22 | 0.25 | 0.22 | 0.27 | 0.40 | |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Measles | 3.92 | 4.73 | 3.70 | 7.35 | 5.79 | |
| Pneumonia | 0.89 | 1.02 | 0.74 | 0.75 | 0.65 | |
| Bates per 1,000 live births | ||||||
| Deaths under one year of age | 43 † | 45 | 37 | 41 | 19.9 | |
| Deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis under two years of age | 4.4 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 4.2 | 1.6 | |
| Bates per 1,000 total births (live and still) | ||||||
| Maternal mortality | ||||||
| Abortion with sepsis | 0.131 | |||||
| ,, without sepsis | 0.06 | |||||
| Puerperal infections | 0.18 | Not | available | |||
| Other | 1.06 | 0.00 | ||||
| Notifications— | ||||||
| Puerperal fever | 8.50 | 10.35 | 7.63 | 1.62 9.68* | 4.69 | |
| Puerperal pyrexia | ||||||
| Abortion— | Mortality per million women aged 15.45 | |||||
| With sepsis | 11 | Not available | ||||
| Without sepsis | 3 | |||||
*Including Puerperal fever.
‡Rates per 1,000 total population.
A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths,
†Per 1,000 related births.