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, 1959.
Population (mid-year 1959, per Registrar General) | 89,020 |
Birth Rate (crude) | 14.3 |
Death Rate (crude) | 8.6 |
Maternal Mortality Rate | Nil |
Infant Mortality Rate | 19.7 |
Number of Births (live) | 1,271 |
Number of Stillbirths | 23 |
Number of Deaths | 762 |
Number of Maternal Deaths | Nil |
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | 3 |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 25 |
Death Rates:— | |
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis) | 1.16 |
Tuberculosis | 0.07 |
Cancer (all forms) | 2.01 |
Cancer of the Lung, Bronchus | 0.47 |
Infectious Diseases | 0.03 |
Notification of Infectious Diseases:— | |
Diphtheria | Nil |
Dysentery | 10 |
Erysipelas | 4 |
Food Poisoning | 27 |
Measles | 1,127 |
Meningococcal Infections | 3 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 |
Pneumonia (all forms) | 42 |
Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | 2 |
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | Nil |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 9 |
Scarlet Fever | 77 |
Typhoid and Para-Typhoid Fever | Nil |
Whooping Cough | 88 |
Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors | 13,603 |