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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 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]

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Table: TABLE I.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1960.

TABLE I.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1960.

Population (mid-year 1960, per Registrar General)89,750
Birth Rate (crude)14.8
Death Rate (crude)7.8
Maternal Mortality Rate0.7
Infant Mortality Rate17.3
Number of Births (live)1,327
Number of Stillbirths31
Number of Deaths702
Number of Maternal Deaths1
Number of Deaths from Infectious DiseasesNil
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)23
Death Rates: —
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis)0.8
Tuberculosis0.04
Cancer (all forms)1.56
Cancer of the Lung, Bronchus0.38
Infectious Diseases0.00
Notification of Infectious Diseases: —
DiphtheriaNil
Dysentery45
Erysipelas2
Food Poisoning7
Measles26
Meningococcal InfectionsNil
Ophthalmia NeonatorumNil
Pneumonia (all forms)15
Poliomyelitis (paralytic)Nil
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic)Nil
Puerperal Pyrexia2
Scarlet Fever63
Typhoid and Para-Typhoid FeverNil
Whooping Cough231
Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors13,520