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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statistical tables, 1964
TABLE I Summary of Statistics
TABLE II Causes of Death.
TABLE III Notifiable Infectious Diseases - Sex and Ago Distribution.
TABLE IV Notifiable Infectious Diseases - Ward Distribution,
Attack and Mortality Rates,
TABLE V Notifiable Infectious Diseases - Seasonal Incidence.
TABLE VI Summary of the work of the Public Health Inspectors.
TABLE VII Nuisances, Defects and Contraventions Abated.
TABLE I. SUMMARY OF STATISTICS,1964.
Population (mid-year 1964) per Registrar General | 82,520 |
Birth Rate (crude) (per 1,000 estimated total population) | 16.7 |
Death Rate (crude) (per 1,000 estimated total population) | 8.2 |
Maternal Mortality Rate (per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) | 0.7 |
Stillbirth Rate (per 1,000 live and Stillbirths) | 15.0 |
Infant Mortality Rate (per 1.000 total live births) | 13.8 |
Number of Births (live) | 1,378 |
Number of Stillbirths | 21 |
Number of Deaths | 677 |
Number of Maternal Deaths | l |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 19 |
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | 2 |
Death Rates:- | |
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis) | 102 |
Tuberculosis | 4 |
Cancer (all forms) | 153 |
Cancer of the lung, bronchus | 47 |
Infectious Diseases | 2 |
Notifications of Infectious Diseases:- | |
Diphtheria | Nil |
Dysentery | 5 |
Erysipelas | 4 |
Food Poisoning | 7 |
Measles | 427 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Nil |
Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | Nil |
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | Nil |
Puerperal pyrexia | 33 |
Pneumonia (all forms) | 19 |
Scarlet Fever | 15 |
Tuberculosis (new cases and including Inward Transfers) | 35 |
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever | Nil |
Whooping Cough | 61 |
Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors | 6,111 |