[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Malden & Coombe] page 6

Malden and Coombe 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Malden & Coombe]

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Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality
and Case-rates for Certain Infectious Diseases in the Year 1953.

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Provisional figures based on Quarterly Returns.

	England and Wales	160 County Boroughs and Great Towns (including London)	160 Smaller Towns (Resident Pop. 25.000-50.000 at 1951 Census)	London Administrative County
Births—	Rates per 1,000 Home Population
Live births	15.5	17.0	15.7	17.5
Still births	0.35	0.43	0.34	0.38
Still births	22.4*	24.8*	21.4*	21.0*
Deaths—
All Causes	11.4	12.2	11.3	12.5
Typhoid and paratyphoid	0.00	0.00	—	—
Whooping cough	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00
Diphtheria	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Tuberculosis	0.20	0.24	0.19	0.24
Influenza	0.16	0.15	0.17	0.15
Smallpox	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Acute poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis)	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Pneumonia	0.55	0.59	0.52	0.64
Notifications (Corrected)
Typhoid fever	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01
Paratyphoid fever	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Meningococcal infection	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.03
Scarlet fever	1.39	1.50	1.44	1.02
Whooping cough	3.58	3.72	3.38	3.30
Diphtheria	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00
Erysipelas	0.14	0.14	0.13	0.12
Smallpox	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Measles	12.36	11.27	12.32	8.09
Pneumonia	0.84	0.92	0.76	0.73
Acute poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis) Paralytic	0.07	0.06	0.06	0.07
Non-paralytic	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.03
Food poisoning	0.24	0.25	0.24	0.38
Puerperal pyrexia	18.23*	24.33*	12.46*	28.61*
Deaths—	Rates per 1,000 Live Births
All causes under 1 year of age	26.8†	30.8	24.3	24.8
Enteritis and diarrhoea under 2 years of age	1.1	1.3	0.9	1.1
* Per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births, † Per 1,000 related live births.