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Carshalton 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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TABLE 4. COMPARATIVE STATISTICS—1950
| England and Wales | 126 Count) 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 Home Population. | |||||
| Live | 15.8 | 17.6 | 16.7 | 17.8 | 13.0 |
| Still | 0.37 | 0.45 | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.22 |
| All causes | 11.6 | 12.3 | 11.6 | 11.8 | 7.8 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — |
| Whooping Cough | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — |
| Tuberculosis | 0.36 | 0.42 | 0.33 | 0.39 | 0.20 |
| Influenza | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.03 |
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — |
| Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | — |
| Pneumonia | 0.46 | 0.49 | 0.45 | 0.48 | 0.22 |
| Typhoid fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | — |
| Paratyphoid fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.01 |
| Scarlet fever | 1.50 | 1.56 | 1.61 | 1.23 | 2.42 |
| Whooping Cough | 3.60 | 3.97 | 3.15 | 3.21 | 6.17 |
| Diphtheria | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | — |
| Erysipelas | 0.17 | 0.19 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.14 |
| Smallpox | — | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — |
| Measles | 8.39 | 8.76 | 8.36 | 6.57 | 13.99 |
| Pneumonia | 0.70 | 0.77 | 0.61 | 0.50 | 0.65 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis Paralytic | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.08 | 0.03 |
| Non-paralytic | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.03 |
| Food poisoning | 0.17 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.25 | 0.01 |
| Rates per 1,000 Live Births. | |||||
| All causes under 1 year of age | 29.81 | 33.8 | 29.4 | 26.3 | 28.4 |
| Enteritis & Diarrhoea under 2 years of age | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 2.4 |
| Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still). | |||||
| Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia | 5.81 | 7.43 | 4.33 | 6.03 | 49.51 |
| Abortion with Sepsis | 0.09 | — | |||
| Other Abortion | 0.05 | — | |||
| Oomplication of pregnacyand delivery | 0.54 | _ | |||
| Sepsis of childbirth and the puerperium | 0.03 | __ | |||
| Other complications of the puerperium | 0.15 | ||||
| * A dash (—) signifies that there was none. †Rates per 1,000 total population. ‡ Per 1,000 relate live births. | |||||