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 Orpington]
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TABLE I.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1958 | |
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Population (mid-year, 1958) per Registrar General | 73,640 |
Birth Rate (Crude) | 17.9 |
Death Rate (Crude) | 10.1 |
Maternal Mortality Rate | Nil |
Infant Mortality Rate | 20.5 |
Number of Births (live) | 1,319 |
Number of Stillbirths | 24 |
Number of Deaths | 747 |
Number of Maternal Deaths | Nil |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 27 |
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | 3 |
Death Rates: — | |
Respiratory Diseases | 1.62 |
Tuberculosis | 0.05 |
Cancer (all forms) | 2.15 |
Cancer of the lung | 0.52 |
Infectious Diseases | 0.04 |
Notifications of Infectious Diseases: — | |
Diphtheria | — |
Dysentery | — |
Erysipelas | 1 |
Food Poisoning | 65 |
Measles | 74 |
Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | 3 |
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | 1 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 87 |
Pneumonia (all forms) | 33 |
Scarlet Fever | 29 |
Tuberculosis (new cases and including Inward Transfers) | 96 |
Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fever | 6 |
Whooping Cough | 152 |
Number of Visits made by the Public Health Inspectors | 6,130 |