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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 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Table: TABLE I.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1957.

TABLE I.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1957.

Population (mid-year 1957, per Registrar General)72,170
Birth Rate (crude)18.0
Death Rate (crude)8.7
Maternal Mortality Rate0.76
Infant Mortality Rate19.2
Number of Births (live)1,302
Number of Stillbirths13
Number of Deaths628
Number of Maternal Deaths1
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)25
Death Rates—
Respiratory Diseases1.22
Tuberculosis0.06
Cancer (all forms)1.82
Cancer of the Lung0.46
Infectious Diseases0.01
Notifications of Infectious Diseases—
DiphtheriaNil
Dysentery33
Erysipelas3
Food Poisoning19
Measles1,874
Poliomyelitis (paralytic)3
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic)4
Puerperal Pyrexia72
Pneumonia (all forms)17
Scarlet Fever30
Tuberculosis (new cases and including Inward Transfers)128
Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fever1
Whooping Cough228
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases1
Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors5,257