Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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TABLE I.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1957.
Population (mid-year 1957, per Registrar General) | 87,790 |
Birth Rate (crude) | 14.0 |
Death Rate (crude) | 8.3 |
Maternal Mortality Rate | Nil |
Infant Mortality Rate | 16.3 |
Number of Births (live) | 1,227 |
Number of Stillbirths | 23 |
Number of Deaths | 733 |
Number of Maternal Deaths | Nil |
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | Nil |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 20 |
Death Rates: — | |
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis) | 1.1 |
Tuberculosis | 0.09 |
Cancer (all forms) | 1.7 |
Cancer of the Lung, Bronchus | 0.4 |
Infectious Diseases | Nil |
Notification of Infectious Diseases: — | |
Diphtheria | Nil |
Dysentery | 81 |
Erysipelas | 5 |
Encephalitis | 2 |
Food Poisoning | 23 |
Measles | 1,448 |
Meningococcal Infection | Nil |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 4 |
Pneumonia (all forms) | 45 |
Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | Nil |
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | 3 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 7 |
Scarlet Fever | 56 |
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever | 1 |
Whooping Cough | 279 |
Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors | 13,500 |