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Carshalton 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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TABLE 4. COMPARATIVE STATISTICS—1951.
| England and Wales | 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns (including London) | 148 smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,00C to 50,000 at 1931 Census) . | London Administrative County | Carshalton | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live | 15.5 | 17.3 | 16.7 | 17.8 | 12.3 |
| Still | 0.36 | 0.45 | 0.38 | 0.37 | 0.37 |
| All causes | 12.5 | 13.4 | 12.5 | 13.1 | 8.7 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | |
| Whooping Cough | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | - |
| Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - |
| Tuberculosis | 0.31 | 0.37 | 0.31 | 0.38 | 0.34 |
| Influenza | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.38 | 0.23 | 0.08 |
| Small pox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | - |
| Pneumonia | 0.61 | 0.65 | 0.63 | 0.61 | 0.37 |
| Typhoid fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | - |
| Paratyphoid fever | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.01 | - |
| Meningococcal infection | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.03 | - |
| Scarlet fever | 1.1l | 1.20 | 1.20 | 1.10 | |
| Whooping Cough | 3.87 | 3.62 | 4.00 | 3.11 | 7.63 |
| Diphtheria | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.01 | |
| Erysipelas | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.15 | |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | - |
| Measles | 14.07 | 13.93 | 14.82 | 14.64 | 16.31 |
| Pneumonia | 0.99 | 1.04 | 0.96 | 0.72 | 0.87 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) | |||||
| Paralytic | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.01 |
| Non-paralytic | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | |
| Food poisoning | 0.13 | 0.15 | 00.8 | 0.23 | 0.11 |
| All causes under 1 year of age | †29.6 | 33.9 | 27.6 | 26.4 | 29.0 |
| Enteritis & Diarrhoea under 2 years of age | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.7 | . |
| Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia | 10.66 | 13.77 | 8.08 | 14.90 | 103.71 |
| Abortion with sepsis | 0.09 | 1.28 | |||
| Other abortion | 0.05 | - | |||
| Sepsis of pregnancy childbirth and the puerperium | 0.10 | ||||
| Other complications of pregnancy childbirth and the puerperium | 0.55 | ||||
* A dash (—) signifies that there was none. f Per 1,000 related live births,
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