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BRO 1
Annual Report
ON THE
HEALTH
OP THE
BROMLEY RURAL SANITARY DISTRICT
IN
1895.
Census, 1881.
No. of Acres 31,751
Inhabited Houses 3,901
Population 20,760
Census, 1891.
No. of Acres 33,129
Inhabited Houses 5,025
Population 26,852
The population at the middle of 1895 was 29,498, estimated by the method adopted by the
Registrar-General, and the rates in this Report are calculated on this basis.
The number of registered births in the Bromley Rural District during the year 1895 amounted to
743, including 356 of males and 387 of females. The birth-rate per 1,000 persons estimated to be
living in the District was 25.2 as against 25.5 in 1893 and 25.3 in 1894.
The total deaths returned were 415, of which there were 218 of males and 197 of females, 69 of
these occurred in the Workhouse, of some persons who did not belong to the District.
The death-rate was 14 per thousand, i.e., considerably higher than in 1894, but lower than in the
two- previous years 1893 1892, when it was 15.9 and 14.2 respectively. Owing to the excess of
births over deaths there was an increase of population of 328 on the year.
Twenty-six persons died from the seven principal zymotic diseases, a number considerably lower
than in 1894, when 41 persons died from these causes. They included 2 from Scarlet Fever, 4 from
Diphtheria, 3 from Measles, 5 from Whooping-cough, and 12 from Diarrhoea. The Zymotic DeathRate
fell from 1.4 in [894 to 0.8.
Table A shows the deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases in each quarter of the year,
and Table B in each of the last ten years.
Under the provisions of the Infectious Disease Notification Act 133 cases were reported, as
against 206 in 1893 and 198 in 1894.
They included two cases of Small-pox, 57 of Scarlet Fever, 25 of Diphtheria, 2 of Membranous
Croup, 14 of Enteric Fever, 2 of Puerperal Fever, and 31 of Erysipelas.