[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 year 1949. (Provisional figures based on quarterly returns.)
Birth-rates. Civilian Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1949. (Provisional figures based on 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
16.7 *
18.7
18.0
18.5
16.45
Still
0.39*
0.47
0.40
0.37
0.39
Deaths— All causes
11.7 *
12.5
11.6
12.2
9.17
Typhoid and Paratyphoid
00.0
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Whooping cough
0.01
0.02
0.01
0.01
0.00
Diphtheria
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Tuberculosis
0.15
0.52
0.42
0.52
0.31
Influenza
0.15
0.15
0.14
0.11
0.12
Smallpox
—
—
—
—
—
Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis
0.01
0.02
0.02
0.01
0.01
Pneumonia
0.51
0.56
0.49
0.59
0.42
Notifications (corrected)— Typhoid fever
0.01
0.01
0.01
0.01
0.00
Paratyphoid fever
0.01
0.02
0.01
0.01
0.00
Cerebro-spinal fever
0.02
0.03
0.02
0.02
0.00
Scarlet fever
1.63
1.72
1.83
1.46
1.33
Whooping cough
2.39
2.44
2.39
1.70
3.16
Diphtheria
0.04
0.05
0.04
0.07
0.01
Erysipelas
0.19
0.20
0.19
0.17
0.18
Smallpox
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Measles
8.95
8.91
9.18
8.54
5.28
Pneumonia
0.80
0.91
0.65
0.55
0.29
Acute Poliomyelitis
0.13
0.13
0.12
0.18
0.09
Acute Polioencephalitis
0.01
0 01
0.02
0.01
0.01
Food Poisoning
0.14
0.16
0.14
0.19
0.09
Rates per 1,000 lire births
Deaths under one year of age
32†
37
30
29
24.48
Deaths from diarrhœa and enteritis under two year6 of age
