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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 1947
[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 1947. (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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kates per 1,000 civilian population | |||||
| Births— | |||||
| Live | •20.5‡ | 23.3 | 22.2 | 22.7 | 21.39 |
| Still | 0.50‡ | 0.62 | 0.54 | 0.49 | 0.49 |
| Deaths— | |||||
| All causes | 12.0‡ | 13.0 | 11.9 | 12.8 | 9.63 |
| 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 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.00 |
| Diphtheria | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Influenza | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.047 |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | — | — | — | — |
| Measles | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.015 |
| Notifications— | |||||
| Typhoid fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Paratyphoid fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 |
| Cerebro-spinal fever | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.03 |
| Scarlet fever | 1.37 | 1.54 | 1.37 | 1.31 | 0.96 |
| Whooping cough | 2.22 | 2.41 | 2.02 | 2.80 | 3.36 |
| Diphtheria | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.06 |
| Erysipelas | 0.19 | 0.21 | 0.18 | 0.22 | 0.14 |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Measles | 9.41 | 9.13 | 9.58 | 5.29 | 8.30 |
| Pneumonia | 0.79 | 0.09 | 0.68 | 0.64 | 0.57 |
| Rates per 1,000 live births | |||||
| Deaths under one year of age | 41† | 47 | 36 | 37 | 38.6 |
| Deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis under two years of age | 5.8 | 8.0 | 3.7 | 4.8 | 0.73 |
| Rates per 1,000 total births (live and still) | |||||
| Maternal mortality | |||||
| Abortion with sepsis | 0.10 | Not available | — | ||
| „ without sepsis | 0.06 | — | |||
| Puerperal infections | 0.16 | — | |||
| Other | 0.85 | 0.71 | |||
| Notifications— | |||||
| Puerperal fever | 7.16 | 8.99 | 6.27 | 1.21 | 6.40 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 6.94* | ||||
| Mortality per million women aged 15.45 | |||||
| Abortion— With sepsis | 9 | Not available | |||
| Without sepsis | 5 | ||||
*Including Puerperal fever.
A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths.
‡Rates per 1,000 total population.
† Per 1,000 related births.