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Bromley 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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1.-GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area in acres 4,696
Population (Registrar General, 1923) 34,970
Number of inhabited houses 7,984
Rateable value £287,702
Product of a penny rate £1,097
The Registrar-General's estimate of population is for
the middle of 1923. R shows an increase of 200 over the
previous year. The natural increase was 211, and the
Registrar-General's estimate allows nothing for any increase
of immigration over the number of persons who left the
district—an unknown quantity. With an increase of over
100 new houses, one would expect a greater increase in the
population.
An approximate estimate of population awaits the
taking of a census under conditions less deceptive than
those which characterised the taking of the last census.

Table: 2.—EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEAR, 1923.Births-

2.—EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEAR, 1923.

Births-

Total.Male.Female.
Legitimate549271278
Illegitimate291910
Birth Rate (R.G.)—-16.5.
Deaths367170197
Death Rate (R.G.)—10.5.

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Number of women dying in consequence of child-birth;
from sepsis, 1.
Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births :
Legitimate, 31; illegitimate, 4; total, 35 (Rate 60).
Deaths from Measles (all ages) ... ... ... 3
Whooping Cough ... ... ... 3
,, Diarrhoea, &c. (under two years) 5