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 Hackney]
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Engl and and Wales | 160 County Boroughs and Great Towns (including London) | 160 Smaller Towns (Resident Population 25,000 - 50,000 at 1951 Census) | London Administrative County | Hackney | |
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BIRTHS | Rates per 1,000 Home Population | ||||
Live Births | 15.5 | 17.0 | 15.7 | 17.5 | 13. 15(C) |
Still Births | 0. 35 | 0.43 | 0.34 | 0. 38 | 0. 39 |
22.4 (a) | 24 8 (a) | 21 4 (a) | 21.0 (a) | 26.21(a) | |
DEATHS | |||||
All causes | 11.4 | 12.2 | 11.3 | 12.5 | 10 70(c) |
Typhoid and Para-typhoid | 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 | 0.14 |
Influenza | 0.16 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.15 | 0.16 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | – | – |
Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Pneumonia | 0.55 | 0.59 | 0.52 | 0.64 | 0.59 |
NOTIFICATIONS | |||||
(Corrected) Typhoid Fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Paratyphoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.05 |
Meningococcal infection | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 |
Scarlet Fever | 1.39 | 1.50 | 1.44 | 1.02 | 1.71 |
Whooping Cough | 3.58 | 3.72 | 3.38 | 3.30 | 4.34 |
Diphtheria | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Erysipelas | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.16 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | – | – |
Measles | 12.36 | 11.27 | 12.32 | 8.09 | 8.89 |
Pneumonia | 0.84 | 0.92 | 0.76 | 0.73 | 0.35 |
Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) Paralytic | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0-06 | 0.07 | 0.06 |
Non-Paralytic | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.02 |
Food Poisoning | 0.24 | 0. 25 | 0. 24 | 0.38 | 0.11 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 18.23(a) | 24. 33(a) | 12.46(a) | 28.61(a) | 38.52(a) |
DEATHS | Rates per 1 000 Live Births | ||||
All causes under 1 year of age | 26.8 (b) | 30.8 | 24.3 | 24.8 | 19.57 |
Enteritis and diarrhoea under 2 years of age | 1. 1 | 1. 3 | 0.9 | 1. 1 | 1.22 |
(a) Per 1,000 Total (live and still) Births.
(b) Per 1,000 related live births.
(c) Corrected by "Area Comparability Factors".