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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Population (mid-year 1958, per Registrar General) , | 88,540 |
Birth Rate (crude) | 15.2 |
Death Rate (crude) | 8.5 |
Maternal Mortality Rate | Nil |
Infant Mortality Rate | 20.9 |
Number of Births (live) | 1,342 |
Number of Stillbirths | 27 |
Number of Deaths | 756 |
Number of Maternal Deaths | Nil |
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | 1 |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 28 |
Death Rates:— | |
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis) | 1.08 |
Tuberculosis | 0.11 |
Cancer (all forms) | 1.76 |
Cancer of the Lung, Bronchus | 0.46 |
Infectious Diseases | 0.01 |
Notification of Infectious Diseases:— | |
Diphtheria | Nil |
Dysentery | 12 |
Erysipelas | 8 |
Food Poisoning | 12 |
Measles | 145 |
Meningococcal Infections | 2 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 |
Pneumonia (all forms) | 39 |
Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | 4 |
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | 3 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | Nil |
Scarlet Fever | 89 |
Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fever | 2 |
Whooping Cough | 69 |
Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors | 14,866 |