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Beddington and Wallington 1952
[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 1952:
| England and Wales. | 160 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London. | 160 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1951 Census). | London Administrative County. | Borough of Beddington and Wallington. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births— | Rates per 1,000 Population. | |||||||||
| Live | 15.3 | 16.9 | 15.5 | 17.6 | 10.74 | |||||
| Still | 0.35 | 0.43 | 0.36 | 0.34 | 0.12 | |||||
| Deaths— | ||||||||||
| All Causes | 11.3 | 12.1 | 11.2 | 12.6 | 11.01 | |||||
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Whooping Cough | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||
| Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||
| Tuberculosis | 0.24 | 0.28 | 0.22 | 0.31 | 0.22 | |||||
| Influenza | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.00 | |||||
| Smallpox | 000 | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |||||
| Pneumonia | 0.47 | 0.52 | 0.43 | 0.58 | 0.46 | |||||
| Notifications— | ||||||||||
| Typhoid Fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||
| Paratyphoid Fever | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |||||
| Meningococcal Infection | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.00 | |||||
| Scarlet Fever | 1.53 | 1.75 | 1.58 | 1.56 | 3.45 | |||||
| Whooping Cough | 2.61 | 2.74 | 2.57 | 1.66 | 2.21 | |||||
| Diphtheria | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |||||
| Erysipelas | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.28 | |||||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | - | |||||
| Measles | 8.86 | 10.11 | 8.49 | 9.23 | 3.66 | |||||
| Pneumonia | 0.72 | 0.80 | 0.62 | 0.57 | 0.62 | |||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) Paralytic | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.00 | |||||
| Non-Paralytic | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.00 | |||||
| Food Poisoning | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.11 | 0.18 | 0.00 | |||||
| Deaths under 1 year of age. | Rates per 1,000 Live Births. | |||||||||
| 27.6 | 31.2 | 25.8 | 23.8 | 16.67 | ||||||
| Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.00 | |||||
| Notifications— | Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still). | |||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 17.87 | 23.94 | 10.22 | 30.77 | 0.00 | |||||
| Sepsis of pregnancy childbirth and the puerper-ium | Abortion with toxaemia | Other toxaemias of pregnancy and the puer-perium | Haemorrhage of pregnancy and childbirth | Abortion without mention of sepsis or toxaemia | Abortion with sepsis | Other complications of pregnancy childbirth and puerperium | ||||
| Maternal Mortality England and Wales | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0.21 | 0.09 | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.20 | |||
| Beddington and Wallington | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.75 | |||