[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden] page 9

Merton and Morden 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden]

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TABLE I.

COMPARATIVE STATISTICS, 1949.

(Registrar General's Figures with Corresponding Figures for Merton and Morden added).

	England and Wales	126 County Boro's and Great Towns including London	148 Smaller Towns (Residential Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census)	London Administrafive County	Merton and Morden
Births:	Rates per 1,000 Population.
Live	16.7 *	18.7	18.0	18.5	13.05
Still	0.39*	0.47	0.40	0.37	0.18
Deaths:
All causes	11.7	12.5	11.6	12.2	8.98
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01
Whooping Cough	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.00
Diphtheria	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Tuberculosis	0.45	0.52	0.42	0.52	0.39
Influenza	0.15	0.15	0.14	0.11	0.13
Smallpox	0.00	0.00	—	—	—
Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01
Pneumonia	0.51	0.56	0.49	0.59	0.31
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	0.01
Scarlet Fever	1.63	1.72	1.83	1.46	2.49
Whooping Cough	2.39	2.44	2.39	1.70	4.38
Diphtheria	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.07	0.02
Erysipelas	0.19	0.20	0.19	0.17	0.15
Smallpox	0 00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Measles	8.95	8.91	9.18	8.54	9.55
Pneumonia	0.80	0.91	0.65	0.55	0.98
Acute Poliomyelitis	0.13	0.13	0.12	0.18	0.13
Acute Polioencephalitis	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.02
Food Poisoning	0.14	0.16	0.14	0.19	0.11
	Rates per 1,000 Live Births.
Deaths:
AH causes under 1 year of age	32†	37	30	29	24.36
Enteritis and Diarrhoea under 2 years of age	3.0	3.8	2.4	1.7	0.00
	Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still).
Notifications: (Corrected)
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia	6.31	8.14	5.30	6.82	5.00

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* Rates per 1,000 Total Population,
† Per 1,000 Related Births.
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