Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden]
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COMPARATIVE STATISTICS, 1963
England and Wales | Merton and Morden | |
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Rates per 1,000 Home Population | ||
Births: | ||
Live | 18.2 | 12-9 |
Still | 0.31 | ( 0-17 |
17.2* | t 13-6* | |
Deaths: | ||
All causes | 12.2 | 12.2 |
Coronary Disease, angina | 2.29 | 3.08* |
Malignant neoplasm - lung, bronchus | 0.52 | 0.61* |
Pneumonia | 0.78 | 0.62 |
Influenza | 0.07 | .08* |
Tuberculosis - all forms | 0.06 | 0.02 |
Diphtheria | 0.00 | — |
Maternal Mortality | 0.28 | — |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 0.00 | — |
Whooping Cough | 0.00 | |
Notifications (corrected): | ||
Measles | 12.77 | 11.13 |
Scarlet Fever | 0.37 | 0.55 |
Tuberculosis- | ||
Respiratory | 0.34 | 0.29 |
Non-respiratory | 0.05 | 0.07 |
Acute Pneumonia | 0.30 | 0.29 |
Whooping Cough | 0.73 | 0.99 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 7.44* | 1.13* |
Erysipelas | 0.03 | 0.04 |
Dysentery | 0.67 | 0.31 |
Food Poisoning | 0.12 | 0.02 |
Malaria | 0.00 | — |
Diphtheria | 0.00 | — |
Acute Encephalitis- | ||
Infective | 0.00 | — |
Post-infective | 0.00 | — |
Enteric or Typhoid Fever | 0.00 | — |
Meningococcal Infection | 0.01 | — |
Para-typhoid Fever | 0.00 | — |
Acute Poliomyelitis- | ||
Paralytic | 0.00 | — |
Non-paralytic | 0.00 | — |
Rates per 1,000 Live Births | ||
Deaths: | ||
Infant Deaths (all causes under 1 year) | 21.1 | 17.2 |
Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years) | 0.5 | 1.1 |
* Per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
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