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 Bromley]
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Disease | Total | WARDS | Cases removed to Hospital | Attack Rate per 1,000 population | No. of Deaths | Death Rate | ||||||
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Plaistow | Martin's Hill | Town | Sun-dridge | Bickley | Bromley Common | Keston and Hayes | ||||||
Scarlet Fever | 124 | 11 | 23 | 12 | 20 | 12 | 31 | 15 | 77 | 1.96 | — | — |
Whooping Cough | 196 | 38 | 7 | 18 | 37 | 34 | 48 | 14 | 2 | 3.09 | 1 | 0.01 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 3 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.05 | 1 | 0.01 |
Acute Polioencephalitis | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.01 |
Measles | 358 | 105 | 28 | 9 | 54 | 23 | 37 | 102 | 2 | 5.65 | — | — |
Diphtheria | 3 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | 3 | 0.05 | — | — |
Acute Pneumonia | 31 | 7 | 1 | — | 6 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 0.49 | 21† | 0.33 |
Dysentery | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Erysipelas | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | 0.13 | — | — |
Cerebrospinal Fever | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 0.03 | 2 | 0.03 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 20 | — | — | 17 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 19 | 18.76§ | — | — |
Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.01 |
Malaria (contracted abroad) | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 .01 | — | — |
Tuberculosis: Pulmonary | 88 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 13 | 17 | 14 | — | 1.39 | 18 | 0.28 |
Non-Pulmonary | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 0.13 | 2 | 0.03 | |
Totals | 844 | 184 | 74 | 70 | 122 | 95 | 147 | 151 | 123 | 13.3 | 47 | 0.74 |
†Includes Pneumonia (all forms). Notifiable types include only acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia.
§Based on attack rate per 1,000 (live and still) births, and not population.