[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden] page 11

Merton and Morden 1950

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

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TABLE I.

COMPARATIVE STATISTICS, 1950.

(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 Administrative County	Merton and Morden
	Rates per 1,000 Population.
Births:
Live	15.8	17.6	16.7	17.8	12.38
Still	0.37	0.45	0.38	0.36	0.24
Deaths:
All causes	11.6	12.3	11.6	11.8	9.35
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Whooping Cough	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00
Diphtheria	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Tuberculosis	0.36	0.42	0.33	0.39	0.33
Influenza	0.10	0.09	0.10	0.07	0.05
Smallpox	—	—	—	—	—
Acute Poliomyelitis (incl. Polioencephalitis)	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01
Pneumonia	0.46	0.49	0.45	0.48	0.33
Notifications: (Corrected)
Typhoid Fever	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00
Paratyphoid Fever	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00
Meningococcal Infection	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.01
Scarlet Fever	1.50	1.56	1.61	1.23	1.60
Whooping Cough	3.60	3.97	3.15	3.21	2.95
Diphtheria	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.00
Erysipelas	0.17	0.19	0.16	0.17	0.13
Smallpox	0.00	0.00	—	—	0.00
Measles	8.39	8.76	8.36	6.57	6.91
Pneumonia	0.70	0.77	0.61	0.50	0.99
Ac. Poliomyelitis:-
Paralytic	0.13	0.12	0.11	0.08	0.07
Non-Paralytic	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.05	0.01
Food Poisoning	0.17	0.16	0.14	0.25	0.13
	Rates per 1,000 Live Births.
Deaths:
All causes under 1 year of age	29.8t	33.8	29.4	26.3	11.73
Enteritis and Diarrhoea under 2 years of age	1.9	2.2	1.6	1.0	0.00
	Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still).
Notifications: (Corrected)
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia	5.81	7.43	4.33	6.03	6.28

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† Per 1,000 Related Births.
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