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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Population (mid-year 1960, per Registrar General) | 89,750 |
Birth Rate (crude) | 14.8 |
Death Rate (crude) | 7.8 |
Maternal Mortality Rate | 0.7 |
Infant Mortality Rate | 17.3 |
Number of Births (live) | 1,327 |
Number of Stillbirths | 31 |
Number of Deaths | 702 |
Number of Maternal Deaths | 1 |
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | Nil |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 23 |
Death Rates: — | |
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis) | 0.8 |
Tuberculosis | 0.04 |
Cancer (all forms) | 1.56 |
Cancer of the Lung, Bronchus | 0.38 |
Infectious Diseases | 0.00 |
Notification of Infectious Diseases: — | |
Diphtheria | Nil |
Dysentery | 45 |
Erysipelas | 2 |
Food Poisoning | 7 |
Measles | 26 |
Meningococcal Infections | Nil |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Nil |
Pneumonia (all forms) | 15 |
Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | Nil |
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | Nil |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 |
Scarlet Fever | 63 |
Typhoid and Para-Typhoid Fever | Nil |
Whooping Cough | 231 |
Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors | 13,520 |