[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Harrogate Borough.

  • Harrogate (England). Borough Council. nb2014025795.
Date:
1950
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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Harrogate Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE IV VITAL STATISTICS (Registrar General’s Figures, 1950) BIRTH RATES, DEATH-RATES, ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, MATERNAL MORTALITY and CASE-RATES for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1950 (Provisional figures based on Quarterly Returns) ^England and Wales 1 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London 148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census) London Adminis- trative County Births— Live Births 15.8 Rates per 1,000 Home Population 17.6 | 16.7 17.8 Still Births 0.37 0.45 0.38 0.36 Deaths— All causes 11.6 12.3 11.6 11.8 Typhoid and Paratyphoid 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Whooping Cough 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 Diphtheria 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Tuberculosis 0.36 0.42 0.33 0.39 Influenza 0.10 0.09 0.10 0.07 Smallpox — — — — Acute Poliomyelitis (inc. Polioencephalitis] 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.01 Pneumonia 0.46 0.49 0.45 0.48 Notifications (Corrected) Typhoid fever 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 Paratyphoid fever 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 Meningococcal infec. 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.03 Scarlet fever 1.50 1.56 1.61 1.23 Whooping Cough 3.60 3.97 3.15 3.21 Diphtheria 0.02 0.03 0.02 0.03 Erysipelas 0.17 0.19 0.16 0.17 Smallpox 0.00 0.00 — — Measles 8.39 8.76 8.36 6.57 Pneumonia 0.70 0.77 0.61 0.50 Acute Poliomyelitis... (inc. Polioencephalitis) Paralytic 0.13 0.12 0.11 0.08 Non-paralytic 0.05 0.05 0.06 0.05 Food poisoning 0.17 0.16 0.14 0.25 Deaths— All causes under 1 yr. of age 29,8 (a) Rates per 1,000 33.8 Live Births 29.4 26.3 Enteritis & Diarrhoea under 2 yrs. of age 1.9 2.2 1.6 1.0 Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births Notifications (Corrected) Puerperal fever and pyrexia 5.81 7.43 4.33 6.03 MATERNAL MORTALITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES International List No. Rates per 1,000 Total Rates per million and cause (Live and Still) Births women aged 15-44 651 Abortion with Sepsis 0.09 7 650,652. Other abortion 0.05 4 640-649, 670-678, Complication of pregnancy and delivery 0.54 681, Sepsis of childbirth and the puerperium 0,03 68C, 682-689, Other complica- tions of the puerperium 0.15 (a) Per 1,000 related live births.