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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 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: TABLE I. Summary of Statistics, 1954.

TABLE I. Summary of Statistics, 1954.

Population (mid-year 1954, per Registrar General)64,800
Birth Rate (crude)12.7
Death Rate (crude)11-2
Maternal Mortality RateNil
Infant Mortality Rate2036
Number of births (Live)824
Number of Stillbirths12
Number of Deaths727
Number of Maternal DeathsNil
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)17
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases1.09
„ „ „ Tuberculosis0.12
„ „ „ Cancer (all forms)1-99
„ „ „ Cancer of Lung0.43
„ ,, „ Zymotic Diseases0.03
Notifications of Infectious Diseases:
Scarlet Fever60
DiphtheriaNil
Poliomyelitis (paralytic)3
Typhoid FeverNil
Puerperal Pyrexia41
Pneumonia (all forms)31
Tuberculosis (new cases)*84
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases2
„ „ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years)Nil
Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors11,696
* Including Inward Transfers.