[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley] page 75

Bromley 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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TABLE V. Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1955 Ward Distribution, Attack and Mortality Rate.

Disease	Total	WARDS							Cases removed to Hospital	Attack Rate per 1,000 population	No. of Deaths	Death Rate per 1,000 population
Disease	Total	Plaistow	Martins Hill	Town	Sun-dridge	Bickley	Bromley Common	Keston and Hayes	Cases removed to Hospital	Attack Rate per 1,000 population	No. of Deaths	Death Rate per 1,000 population
Scarlet Fever	51	4	2	2	5	5	20	13	6	0.79	—	—
Whooping Cough	124	9	9	3	12	16	28	47	1	1.91		—
Acute Poliomyelitis (paralytic)	5	1	—	—	1	1	1	1	5	0.08	1	0.015
„ „ (Non-Paralytic)	9	3	1	—	2	—	—	3	9	0.14	—	—
Measles	760	131	87	48	82	89	143	180	2	11.73	—	—
Diphtheria	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	—	-	-	-
Acute Pneumonia	23	1	3	5	3	1	10	—	6	0.35‡	44	0.68
Dysentery	14	—	—	1	2	-	7	4	3	0.22	-	-
Erysipelas	9	—	1	-	-	2	6	-	2	0.14	-	-
Cerebro Spinal Fever	—	—	—	—	-	—	—	—	-	-	—	-
Puerperal Pyrexia	33	—	-	32	-	-	1	—	32	39.57§	-	-
Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fever	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	0 .015	—	-
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary)	87	18	8	10	7	8	19	17	17	1.34	5	0.08
,, (Non-Pulmonary)	2	—	—	—	2	—	—	—	2	0.03	—	—
Food Poisoning	4	-	—	-	3	—	1	-	1	0 .06	—	—
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Malaria	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-
Totals ...	1122	167	112	101	119	122	236	265	87	17.32	50	0.77

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