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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Malden and Coombe 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Malden & Coombe]
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Birth-rates, Civilian Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality and Case rates for certain Infectious diseases in the Year 1946. Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns.
| England and Wales Rates | 126 C.Bs. and Great Towns Including London per 1,000 | 148 Smaller Towns Resident Pop. 25,000— 50.000 1931 Census Civilian Populaton | London Adm. County | England and Wales | 126 C.Bs. and Great Towns including London | 148 Smaller Towns Resident Pop. 25,000— 50,000 1931 Census | London Adm. County | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births | 19.1 † | 22.2 | 21.3 | 21.5 | Deaths under 1 year of age | 43 | 45 | 37 | 41 |
| Still Births | 0.53† | 0.67 | 0.59 | 0.54 | |||||
| Deaths:— | Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 Years of age | 4.4 | 6.1 | 2.8 | 4.2 | ||||
| All Causes | 11.5 † | 12.7 | 11.7 | 12.7 | |||||
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||
| Scarlet {'ever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | *A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths. | ||||
| Whooping Cough | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | |||||
| Diphtheria | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 — | Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still). | ||||
| Iufluenza | 0.15 | 0.13 | 0.14 | 0.12 | |||||
| Small-pox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | |||||
| Measles | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | Maternal | ||||
| Notifications:— | Mortality: — | (Excluding Abortion) | |||||||
| Typhoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | Puerperal Infection (No. 147) | 0.18 | |||
| Paratyphoid Fever | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | |||||
| Cerebro Spinal Fever | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.06 | |||||
| Others | 1.06 | ||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 1.38 | 1.51 | 1.33 | 1.42 | Total | 1.34 | |||
| 2.48 | 2.05 | 2.22 | Notification: — | ||||||
| Diphtheria | 0.28 | 0.32 | 0.31 | 0.24 | |||||
| Erysipelas | 0.22 | 0.25 | 0.22 | 0.27 | Puerperal Fever | 8.50 | 10.35 | 7.63 | 9.68 |
| Small-pox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||
| Measles | 3.92 | 4.73 | 3.70 | 7.35 | |||||
| Pneumonia | 0.89 | 1.02 | 0.74 | 0.75 | Puerperal Pyrexia | ||||
| t Rates per 1,000 Total Population. | |||||||||