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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Chislehurst 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]

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Table: TABLE I.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1957.

TABLE I.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1957.

Population (mid-year 1957, per Registrar General)87,790
Birth Rate (crude)14.0
Death Rate (crude)8.3
Maternal Mortality RateNil
Infant Mortality Rate16.3
Number of Births (live)1,227
Number of Stillbirths23
Number of Deaths733
Number of Maternal DeathsNil
Number of Deaths from Infectious DiseasesNil
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)20
Death Rates: —
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis)1.1
Tuberculosis0.09
Cancer (all forms)1.7
Cancer of the Lung, Bronchus0.4
Infectious DiseasesNil
Notification of Infectious Diseases: —
DiphtheriaNil
Dysentery81
Erysipelas5
Encephalitis2
Food Poisoning23
Measles1,448
Meningococcal InfectionNil
Ophthalmia Neonatorum4
Pneumonia (all forms)45
Poliomyelitis (paralytic)Nil
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic)3
Puerperal Pyrexia7
Scarlet Fever56
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever1
Whooping Cough279
Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors13,500