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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
Orpington 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
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| Population (mid-year 1956, per Registrar General) | 70,410 |
| Birth Rate (crude) | 17.3 |
| Death Rate (crude) | 9.2 |
| Maternal Mortality Rate | Nil |
| Infant Mortality Rate | 20.51 |
| Number of Births (live) | 1,219 |
| Number of Stillbirths | 20 |
| Number of Deaths | 648 |
| Number of Maternal Deaths | Nil |
| Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 25 |
| Death Rates— | |
| Respiratory Diseases | 1.9 |
| Tuberculosis | 0.1 |
| Cancer (all forms) | 1.86 |
| Cancer of the Lung | 0.48 |
| Infectious Diseases | 0.01 |
| Notifications of Infectious Diseases— | |
| Diphtheria | Nil |
| Dysentery | 50 |
| Erysipelas | 3 |
| Food Poisoning | 36 |
| Measles | 33 |
| Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | 5 |
| Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | 5 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 72 |
| Pneumonia (all forms) | 43 |
| Scarlet Fever | 40 |
| Tuberculosis (new cases and including Inward Transfers) | 111 |
| Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fever | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 227 |
| Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | 1 |
| Number of Visits made by Public Health Inspectors | 6,410 |