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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 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: TABLE I. Summary of Statistics, 1956.

TABLE I. Summary of Statistics, 1956.

Population (mid-year 1956, per Registrar General)65,100
Birth Rate (crude)12.3
Death Rate (crude)11.8
Maternal Mortality Rate0.81
Infant Mortality Rate16.20
Number of Births (live)802
Number of Stillbirths9
Number of Deaths765
Number of Maternal Deaths1
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)13
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases4
Death Rates:—Respiratory Diseases1.12
Tuberculosis0.01
Cancer (all forms)2.30
Cancer of the Lung0.57
Infectious Diseases0.06

Table: Notifications of Infectious Diseases:

Notifications of Infectious Diseases:

DiphtheriaNil
Dysentery70
Erysipelas9
Food Poisoning12
Measles103
Pneumonia (all forms)18
Poliomyelitis (paralytic)3
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic)4
Puerperal Pyrexia22
Scarlet Fever14
Tuberculosis (new cases and including inward transfers)57
Typhoid and Para-Typhoid Fever1
Whooping Cough100
Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors12,159