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Annual Report on the Health
OF THIi
BROMLEY
RURAL SANITARY DISTRICT,
For the Year I904.
POPULATION
The population of the Bromley Rural District estimated to
the middle of 1904 was 19,504, showing an increase of 696 since
the census of 1901, and 217 on the estimated population of 1903.
The number of registered births amounted to 483, including
256 of males and 227 of females, and giving a Birth-rate of 24.7
per 1,000 of population as compared with 26.4 in the previous year,
and 21 .0 in 1902.
Three hundred and fourteen deaths were registered, consisting
of 155 of males and 159 of females.
To these must be added 3 deaths of residents which occurred
outside the District, 2 at the Bromley and Beckenham Joint
Hospital, and 1 at the Cottage Hospital, Eltham.
Of the total 317 deaths 71 were those of non-residents.
The Death-rate was 12.6 per 1,000 of the population as
compared with 12.3 in 1903, and 112 in 1902.
The principal Epidemic Diseases include Small-pox, Measles,
Scarlet Fever. Diphtheria. Whooping Cough, Fever (including
the three principal forms, Typhus, Enteric or Typhoid Fever, and
Pyrexia of uncertain origin), and Diarrhoea.
Of the total 246 deaths, 22 were caused by one or other of
these diseases, viz., 3 by Diphtheria, 9 by Whooping-cough, and 10
by Diarrhoea.
The Epidemic Disease Death-rate was 1.1 per 1,000 of the
population as compared with .7 in 1903, and 1.7 in 1902.