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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

Chislehurst 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]

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Table: TABLE I.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1955.

TABLE I.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1955.

Population (mid-year 1955, per Registrar General)86,870
Birth Rate (crude)15.8
Death Rate (crude)8.6
Maternal Mortality Rate0.72
Infant Mortality Rate24.8
Number of Births (live)1,370
Number of Stillbirths17
Number of Deaths747
Number of Maternal Deaths1
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)34
Death Rates: —
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis)1.00
Tuberculosis0.09
Cancer (all forms)1.80
Cancer of the Lung, Bronchus0.50
Zymotic Diseases0.02
Notification of Infectious Diseases: —
DiphtheriaNil
Dysentery18
Erysipelas4
Food Poisoning13
Measles1,466
Pneumonia (all forms)67
Poliomyelitis (paralytic)12
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic)1
Puerperal Pyrexia5
Scarlet Fever44
Tuberculosis (new cases and including Inward Transfers)153
Typhoid and Para-Typhoid Fever3
Whooping Cough260
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases2
Number of visits made by Sanitary Inspectors10,716