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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 1962

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]

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Table: TABLE I.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1962

TABLE I.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1962

Population (mid-year 1962, per Registrar-General)88,560
Birth Rate (crude) (per 1,000 estimated total population)15.3
Death Rate (crude) (per 1,000 estimated total population)9.5
Maternal Mortality Rate (per 1,000 total live and stillbirths)Nil
Stillbirth Rate (per 1,000 total live and stillbirths)15.2
Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births)20.6
Number of Births (live)1,357
Number of Stillbirths21
Number of Deaths837
Number of Maternal DeathsNil
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)28
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases4
Death Rates: —
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis)1.4
Tuberculosis0.03
Cancer (all forms)1.74
Cancer of the Lung, Bronchus0.6
Infectious Diseases0.5
Notification of Infectious Diseases: —
DiphtheriaNil
Dysentery14
Erysipelas7
Food Poisoning7
Measles69
Pneumonia (all forms)10
Poliomyelitis (paralytic)Nil
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic)Nil
Puerperal Pyrexia4
Scarlet Fever26
Tuberculosis (new cases and inward transfers)20
Typhoid and Paratyphoid FeverNil
Whooping Cough5
Number of visits made by the Public Health Inspectors13,502