[Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1944
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Population, births and deaths This gives a tu])erciilosis (leath-rate of 1.01 per 1,00<) of the population. Of the 0*2 deaths from respiratory tuberculosis during 1944, Ho occurred in persons between 15 and 05 years old—that is, of a wage- earning age. Deaths from certain epidemic diseases.—The seven “ princij^al epidemic diseases ” caused 81 deaths, as follows: — Oiarrlupa and enteritis (undci’ '1 years) 24 Wliooping cough 8 Measles — Scarlet f^'ver 1 l)i])htheria (Including membran(‘f)us crouji 8 Fever (enteric-, typhus, and simple continued)... — Small})OX — This con-esponds to a death-rate from all these diseases of O.20 jici 1,000 of the ])o])ulation. Deaths from other notifiable infectious diseases.—Thieumonia caused, in its various forms, H8 deaths, and cerehro-s}}inal fever, 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927382_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
