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Bromley 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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APPENDIX I.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1933.
Population (mid-year 1933) 48,270
Birth Rate 12.3
Death Rate 10.1
Infantile Mortality Rate 41.8
Number of Births (live) 598
Number of Stillbirths 17
Number of Deaths 489
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) 25
Death Kate of Respiratory Diseases 0.9
,, ,, ,, Tuberculosis 0.7
„ „ „ Cancer 1.4
,, ,, ,, Zymotic Diseases 0.10
Notification of Scarlet Fever 155
,, ,, Diphtheria 29
,, ,, Pneumonia 27
,, ,, Tuberculosis 61
Number of Deaths from Measles —
„ ,, ,, ,, Scarlet Fever —
„ ,, ,, ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 3
„ „ ,, ,, Child Birth 4
Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors 9,850
,, ,, ,, ,, Health Visitors 6,110
„ ,, Babies on the Registers at the
Ceutres, end December, 1933 1,473