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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 1959

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]

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Table: TABLE I.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1959.

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 RateNil
Infant Mortality Rate19.7
Number of Births (live)1,271
Number of Stillbirths23
Number of Deaths762
Number of Maternal DeathsNil
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases3
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)25
Death Rates:—
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis)1.16
Tuberculosis0.07
Cancer (all forms)2.01
Cancer of the Lung, Bronchus0.47
Infectious Diseases0.03
Notification of Infectious Diseases:—
DiphtheriaNil
Dysentery10
Erysipelas4
Food Poisoning27
Measles1,127
Meningococcal Infections3
Ophthalmia Neonatorum2
Pneumonia (all forms)42
Poliomyelitis (paralytic)2
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic)Nil
Puerperal Pyrexia9
Scarlet Fever77
Typhoid and Para-Typhoid FeverNil
Whooping Cough88
Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors13,603