[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Dover Town and Port.

  • Dover (England). Town and Port Council.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Dover Town and Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BIRTH RATES, DEATH RATES, ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY FROM TUBERCULOSIS, CANCER AND MATERNAL CAUSES, AND CASE RATES FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE YEAR 1955 COMPARED WITH FIGURES (PROVISIONALLY DOVER ENGLAND AND WALES Rates per 1,00( ) Home Population 15.42 15.0 0.32 0.36 20.26 (a) 23.1 (a) 10.1 (b) 11.7 0.20 0.13 -— 0.015 0.38 0.39 1.68 1.67 BIRTHS : Live Births ... Still Births DEATHS: All Causes ... Tuberculosis : (i) Respiratory ... (ii) Other Cancer : (i) Lungs and Bronchus (ii) Other All causes under 1 year of age NOTIFICATIONS (Corrected): Scarlet Fever Diphtheria ... Typhoid Fever Paratyphoid Fever ... Acute Pneumonia ... Dysentery ... Poliomyelitis : (i) Paralytic (ii) Non-Paralytic Food Poisoning Tuberculosis : (i) Respiratory ... (ii) Meninges and C.N.S (iii) Other Meningococcal Infection Whooping Cough ... Measles Erysipelas Smallpox Rates per 1,000 related Live Births 32.00 24.9 Notification Ra Poj tes per 1,000 Home mlation i Puerperal Pyrexia MATERNAL MORTALITY 0.93 0.73 — 0.00 — 0.00 — 0.02 1.13 0.63 0.14 0.83 0.32 0.08 0.20 0.06 1.62 0.29 0.78 0.77 — 0.01 0.06 0.09 — 0.03 4.99 1.78 30.15 15.61 0.09 0.10 Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births 4.60 (c) 17.79 1.84 0.64 (a) Rates per 1,000 total live and still births. (b) Adjusted for Comparative Purposes. (c) This rate is based on the number of notifications of puerperal pyrexia and the total number of births, live and still, registered in the Borough.