Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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TABLE I.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1955.
Population (mid-year 1955, per Registrar General) | 86,870 |
Birth Rate (crude) | 15.8 |
Death Rate (crude) | 8.6 |
Maternal Mortality Rate | 0.72 |
Infant Mortality Rate | 24.8 |
Number of Births (live) | 1,370 |
Number of Stillbirths | 17 |
Number of Deaths | 747 |
Number of Maternal Deaths | 1 |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 34 |
Death Rates: — | |
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis) | 1.00 |
Tuberculosis | 0.09 |
Cancer (all forms) | 1.80 |
Cancer of the Lung, Bronchus | 0.50 |
Zymotic Diseases | 0.02 |
Notification of Infectious Diseases: — | |
Diphtheria | Nil |
Dysentery | 18 |
Erysipelas | 4 |
Food Poisoning | 13 |
Measles | 1,466 |
Pneumonia (all forms) | 67 |
Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | 12 |
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | 1 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 5 |
Scarlet Fever | 44 |
Tuberculosis (new cases and including Inward Transfers) | 153 |
Typhoid and Para-Typhoid Fever | 3 |
Whooping Cough | 260 |
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | 2 |
Number of visits made by Sanitary Inspectors | 10,716 |