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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
Carshalton 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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TABLE 4.
COMPARATIVE STATISTICS—1949.
| 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. | Carshalton. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population. | ||||||
| Live | 16.7† | 18.7 | 18.0 | 18.5 | 13.2 | |
| Still | 0.39† | 0.47 | 0.40 | 0.37 | 0.25 | |
| All causes | 11.7† | 12.5 | 11.6 | 12.2 | 8.3 | |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | |
| Whooping Cough | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | |
| Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | |
| Tuberculosis | 0.45 | 0.52 | 0.42 | 0.52 | 0.35 | |
| Influenza | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.11 | 0.06 | |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | — | — | |
| Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | - | |
| Pneumonia | 0.51 | 0.56 | 0.49 | 0.59 | 0.52 | |
| Rates per 1,000 Live Births. | ||||||
| Deaths under 1 year of age | 32‡ | 37 | 30 | 29 | 29 | |
| Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age | 3.0 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 1.7 | - | |
| Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population. | ||||||
| Typhoid fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — | |
| Paratyphoid fever | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — | |
| Cerebro Spinal fever | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | |
| Scarlet fever | 1.63 | 1.72 | 1.83 | 1.46 | 1.74 | |
| Whooping Cough | 2.39 | 2.44 | 2.39 | 1.70 | 3.61 | |
| Diphtheria | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.01 | |
| Erysipelas | 0.19 | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.17 | 0.09 | |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | |
| Measles | 8.95 | 8.91 | 9.18 | 8.54 | 7.60 | |
| Pneumonia | 0.80 | 0.91 | 0.65 | 0.55 | 0.67 | |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.18 | 0.03 | |
| Acute Polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | |
| Food poisoning | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.19 | 4.80 | |
| Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still). | ||||||
| Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia | 6.31 | 8.14 | 5.30 | 6.82 | 46.37 | |
| Abortion with Sepsis | 0.11 | Not available | - | |||
| Abortion without Sepsis | 0.05 | - | ||||
| Puerperal Infections | 0.11 | - | ||||
| Other Puerperal causes | 0.71 | - | ||||
| *A dash (—) signifies that there was none. †Rates per 1,000 total population. ‡Per 1,000 related live births. | ||||||