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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 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: TABLE VI. Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1953. Ward Distribution, Attack and Mortality Rates.

TABLE VI. Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1953. Ward Distribution, Attack and Mortality Rates.

DiseaseTotalWARDSCases removed to HospitalAttack Rate per 1,000 populationNo. of DeathsDeath Rate per 1,000 population
PlaistowMartins HillTownSundridgeBickleyBromley CommonKeston and Hayes
Scarlet Fever12013181012202621271.86--
Whooping Cough38231262118491785975.9--
Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic)7--1-13250.11--
„ „ (Non-Paralytic)1-----1-10.02--
Measles968108664566155316212715.0--
Diphtheria------------
Acute Pneumonia417832993130.63‡220.34
Dysentery10---226-10.15--
Erysipelas5-1-112-20.08--
Cerebro-Spinal Fever------------
Puerperal Pyrexia54--93---15460.27§--
Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fever1----1--100.2--
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary)10214101115151913221.5880.12
„ (Non-Pulmonary)82-1211150.1210.02
Food Poisoning31---11--0.05--
Ophthalmia Neonatorum------------
Malaria------------
Totals170217612914511825556231714526.35310.48

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‡ Includes Pneumonia (all forms). § Based on attack rate per 1,000 total births, and not population.