BRITAIN'S HEALTHIEST YEAR
Received Thursday, 10.25 p.m. LONDON, August 28. The year 1945 was the healthiest ever known for Britain, states the Registrar-General. He revealed that the V2 rocket and flying bomb attacks from bases in Holland caused 2404 civilian deaths in 1945, of which 1875 were in the Greater London area. The total niunber of deaths in England and Wales was 488,108 or 12.6 per thousand. The infant mortality rate was 46 per thousand. As a result of the immunisation campaign only 694 deaths were attributed to diphtheria. The death rate for children under 15 years, reached the new low level oi' 67 per million.
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 August 1947, Page 5
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