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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 1958

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]

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Table: TABLE I.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1958.

TABLE I.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1958.

Population (mid-year 1958, per Registrar General) ,88,540
Birth Rate (crude)15.2
Death Rate (crude)8.5
Maternal Mortality RateNil
Infant Mortality Rate20.9
Number of Births (live)1,342
Number of Stillbirths27
Number of Deaths756
Number of Maternal DeathsNil
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases1
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)28
Death Rates:—
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis)1.08
Tuberculosis0.11
Cancer (all forms)1.76
Cancer of the Lung, Bronchus0.46
Infectious Diseases0.01
Notification of Infectious Diseases:—
DiphtheriaNil
Dysentery12
Erysipelas8
Food Poisoning12
Measles145
Meningococcal Infections2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum2
Pneumonia (all forms)39
Poliomyelitis (paralytic)4
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic)3
Puerperal PyrexiaNil
Scarlet Fever89
Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fever2
Whooping Cough69
Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors14,866