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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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TABLE I.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1956.
Population (mid-year 1956, per Registrar General) 87,300
Birth Rate (crude) 14.2
Death Rate (crude) 7.7
Maternal Mortality Rate Nil
Infant Mortality Rate 24.12
Number of Births (live) 1,244
Number of Stillbirths 30
Number of Deaths 675
Number of Maternal Deaths Nil
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases 2
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) 30
Death Rates: —
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis) 1.01
Tuberculosis 0.13
Cancer (all forms) 1.45
Cancer of the Lung, Bronchus 0.36
Infectious Diseases 0.02
Notification of Infectious Diseases: —
Diphtheria Nil
Dysentery 168
Erysipelas 1
Food Poisoning 15
Measles 156
Meningococcal Infection 1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 10
Pneumonia (all forms) 43
Poliomyelitis (paralytic) 4
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) 1
Puerperal Pyrexia 6
Scarlet Fever 75
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever 1
Whooping Cough .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 309
Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors .... 11,425