[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough.

Smethwick (Worcestershire, England). County Borough Council.

Date:: 1952

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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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BIRTH-RATES, CIVILIAN DEATH-RATES, ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, MATERNAL MORTALITY AND CASE-RATES FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE YEAR 1952 Smethwick 126 148 Smaller England County Boro’s Towns and (Resident and Great Towns Population Wales including 25,000 to London 50.000 at 1931 Census) London Administra¬ tive County Rates per 1,000 Home Population;— BIRTHS; Live Births Still Births DEATHS; All Causes Typhoid and Paratyphoid Whooping Cough .. Diphtheria Tuberculosis Influenza. Smallpox. Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) Pneumonia NOTIFICATIONS (Corrected) Typhoid Fever Paratyphoid Fever.. Meningococcal Infection .. Scarlet Fever .. .. Whooping Cough .. Diptheria .. .. ' Erysipelas .. .. I Smallpox .. .. I Measles .^ Pneumonia .. .. Acute Poliomyelitis (including [ Polioencephalitis) i Paralytic Non-paralytic Food Poisoning i 14.8 0.23 15.6 10.9 0.28 0.02 0.39 0.01 0.01 0.03 1.83 5.10 0.26 4.31 0.61 0,03 NOTIFICATIONS (Corrected); Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 15.3 16.9 15.5 0,35 0.43 0.36 22.6(a) i 24.6(a) 23.0(a) 1 11.3 12.1 11.2 0.00 0.00 0.00 ! 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.24 0.28 0.22 0.04 0,04 0.04 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.47 0.52 0.43 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.02 0.02 0.03 0.03 0.03 0,03 1,53 1.75 1.58 2.61 2.74 2.57 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.14 0.15 0.12 1 ' 0.00 0,00 0.00 i 8.86 lO.Il 8.40 0.72 0.80 0.62 0.06 0.06 ( 0.06 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.13 0.16 ! 0.11 I Rates per 1,000 Live Births;— DEATHS; All causes under 1 year of age Enteritis and 36.1 27.6(b) 31.2 25 8 diarrhoea under 2 years of age.. 0.8 1.1 1.3 0.5 Rates per 1,000. Total (Live and Still) Births;— 1.73 17.87(a) 23.94(a) 10.22(a) 17.6 0.34 19.2(a) 12.6 0.00 0.00 0.31 0.05 0.01 0.58 0.00 0.01 0.02 1.56 1.66 0.01 0.14 9.23 0.57 0.06 0.03 0.18 23.8 30.77(a) (a) Per 1,000. Total (Live and Still) Births. (b) Per 1.000 related Live Births. MATERNAL MORTALITY Intermediate List No. and cause AU5 Sepsis of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium .. A116 Abortion with toxaemia .. A116 Other toxsmias of pregnancy and the perperium A117 Hemorrhage of pregnancy and childbirth AMS Abortion without mention of seosis or toxemia All6 Abortion with toxemia .. A120 Other complications of preg¬ nancy, childbirth and the puerperium Number of Deaths Rates per 1.000 Total (Live & Still) Births Rates per million women aged 15-44 years Smethwick England and Wales England & Wales — 61 0,09 — 13 0.02 1 — 147 0.21 — — 59 0.09 — — 31 0,04 3 47 0.07 5 — 125 0.18 —