London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bromley 1950
[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 per 1,000 population | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plaistow | Martins Hill | Town | Sun-dridge | Bickley | Bromley Common | Keston and Hayes | ||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 115 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 15 | 36 | 20 | 52 | 1.78 | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 113 | 13 | 6 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 41 | 13 | 2 | 1.75 | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | 7 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0.11 | - | - |
| „ „ (Non-Paralytic) | 7 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 0.11 | - | - |
| Measles | 368 | 23 | 26 | 24 | 35 | 59 | 173 | 28 | 5 | 5.7 | - | - |
| Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0.01 | - | - |
| Acute Pneumonia | 53 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 14 | 0.82 | 20‡ | 0.31 |
| Dysentery | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 0.04 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 8 | 5 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 0.12 | - | - |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 3 | 004 | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 21 | - | - | 21 | - | - | - | - | 21 | 0.33§ | - | - |
| Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0.01 | - | - |
| Tuberculosis: | ||||||||||||
| Pulmonary | 85 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 14 | - | 1.32 | 18 | 0.28 |
| Non-Pulmonary | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 0.04 | 1 | 0.01 |
| Food Poisoning | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1† | 0.03 | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 0.03 | - | - |
| Totals | 792 | 76 | 64 | 82 | 86 | 113 | 289 | 82 | 108 | 12.26 | 39 | 0.6 |