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URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL OF
CHISLEHURST AND SIDCUP
HEALTH REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1943.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have pleasure in presenting my Annual Health Report
for the year 1943, this being the twenty-first one submitted
by me as your Medical Officer of Health.
The Report is again curtailed this year, and contains only
such essential features as it is necessary to record.
The population of the District as estimated by the
Registrar-General at mid-year 1943 is 60,130.
There was a decrease in the Birth Rate this year, viz.:
17.8 per thousand of population, as against 18.1 last year.
A slight increase in the Death Rate took place, the Rate
for the year being equal to 10.0 per thousand of population,
as compared with 9.7 last year.
A decrease again this year took place in the Infantile
Mortality Rate, this being equal to 36 per thousand
registered births, as compared with 38 last year and 52 in
1941.
The year was a satisfactory one from the point of view of
incidence of Infectious Disease, the number of notification
certificates received being 1,603, as against 835 last year.
This is mainly owing to a much larger number of cases of
Scarlet Fever and Measles being notified.
In submitting this Report, I desire to thank the Council
and all its Officers for their kind help. In particular, I would
like to place on record my appreciation of the loyal and
efficient services rendered by Mr. Allen and all members of
the Public Health Department.
I am. Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
P. N. CAVE,
Medical Officer of Health.