[Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Widnes Borough.

  • Widnes (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1966
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Credit: [Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Widnes Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following provisional figures based on the Registrar General's Quarterly Returns of birth and death rates, together with case rates for certain infectious diseases for England and V/ales are shown together with corresponding data in respect of the Borough of Widnes ■ i England & Wales Borough of Widnes Rates per 1 ,000 Rates per 1,000 population population BirthsJ 1 Live births 17.7 20.0 (c) Stillbirths ( 0.28 ( 15*4 (a) ( 0.37 ( 16.9 (a) DeathsJ All causes 11^7 14.2 (0) Tuberculosis (all forms) 0,048 0.055 Respiratory 0.043 0.037 Ronr-r e sp i ra 10 ry 0.005 0.018 Cancer (all forms) 2.25 1.93 Lung and bronchus 0.56 0.51 Other cancer 1.69 1.42 Maternal mortality (total) 0.26 (a) 0.85 (a) Maternal causes (excluding abortion) 0.20 (a) Nil 1 Due to abortion 0.06 (a) 0.85 (a) Infant mortality 19.0 (bj 26.1 (t) Neonatal mortality 12.9 (b 12.9 (b) Early neonatal mortality 11.1 (b. 9.5 (L Perinatal mortality 26.3 (a] 26.3 (a) Notifications (Corrected)s Typhoid fever 0.002 Nil Paratyphoid fever 0.003 Nil Meningococcal infection 0.008 Nil Scarlet fever 0.442 0.367 Whooping cough 0.402 0.257 Diphtheria 0.000 Nil Erysipelas 0.028 0.017 Smallpox 0,001 Nil Measles 7.149 14.789 Acute Pneumonia 0.167 0.055 Acute Poliomyelitis 0.000 Nil Acute Encephalitis 0.004 Nil Dysentery 0.446 Nil Food Poisoning 0.113 Nil Puerperal Pyrexia Tuberculosis - 0,185 0.017 Respiratory 0.257 0.202 Meninges and C.N.S* 0.002 Nil Other 0,045 Nil Anthrax j 0.000 Nil (a) Per 1,0(X) total (live and still) births (b) Per 1,000 live births (c) Adjusted rate