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Beddington and Wallington 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beddington and Wallington]
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Comparative birth rates, civilian death rates, analysis of mortality, maternal mortality and case rates for certain infectious diseases in the year 1951:
| England and Wales. | 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London. | 148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census). | London Administrative County. | Borough of Beddington and Wallington. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births— | Rates per 1,000 Population. | |||||||||
| Live | 15.5 | 17.3 | 16.7 | 17.8 | 11.17 | |||||
| Still | 0.36 | 0.45 | 0.38 | 0.37 | 0.37 | |||||
| Deaths— All Causes | 12.5 | 13.4 | 12.5 | 13.1 | 10.47 | |||||
| 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 | 0.31 | 0.37 | 0.31 | 0.38 | 0.18 | |||||
| Influenza | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.38 | 0.23 | 0.28 | |||||
| Smallpox | 0 00 | 000 | 0 00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) | 0 00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||
| Pneumonia | 0.61 | 0.65 | 0.63 | 0.61 | 0.34 | |||||
| Notifications— Typhoid Fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |||||
| Paratyphoid Fever | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |||||
| Meningococcal Infection | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.00 | |||||
| Scarlet Fever | 1.11 | 1.20 | 1.20 | 1.10 | 0.92 | |||||
| Whooping Cough | 3.87 | 3.62 | 4.00 | 3.11 | 2.73 | |||||
| Diphtheria | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |||||
| Erysipelas | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.15 | 0.12 | |||||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 00 | — | — | |||||
| Measles | 14.07 | 13.93 | 14.82 | 14.64 | 7.35 | |||||
| Pneumonia | 0.99 | 1 .04 | 0.96 | 0.72 | 2.26 | |||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) Paralytic | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.00 | |||||
| Non-Paralytic | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.00 | |||||
| Food Poisoning | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.23 | 0.03 | |||||
| Deaths under 1 year of age | Rates per 1,000 Live Births. | |||||||||
| 29.6 | 33.9 | 27.6 | 26.4 | 23.94 | ||||||
| Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.00 | |||||
| Notifications— | Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still). | |||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 10.66 | 13.77 | 8.08 | 14.90 | 0.00 | |||||
| Sepsis of pregnancy childbirth and the puerperium | Abortion with toxaemia | Other toxaemias of pregnancy and the puerperium | Haemorr. age of pregnancy and childbirth | Abortion without mention of sepsis or toxaemia | Abor. tion with sepsis | Other complications of pregnancy childbirth and puerperium | ||||
| Maternal Mortality England and Wales | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.24 | 0.13 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.18 | |||
| Beddington and Wallington | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 00 | |||