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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
Orpington 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA.
Area (in acres) 20,842
Registrar-General's estimate of population,
mid-1941 46,270
Number of occupied houses, December, 1941 15,556
Rateable Value of District, December, 1941 £473,031
Sum represented by a penny rate £1,700
Total. M. F.
Birth Hate per 1,000
estimated population
Live births
Legitimate 729 365 364
Illegitimate 30 13 17
16.4
Total births 759 378 381
Stillbirths 21 12 9
Rate per 1,000
(live and still) births
28.3
Deaths 573 296 277
Death Rate per 1,000
of estimated
population.
12.3
Rate per 1,000 (live and
still) births.
Deaths from puerperal causes:
Puerperal Sepsis Nil —
Other purperal causes Nil —
Infant Deaths:
No. of Deaths.
All Infants 38 Rate per 1,000 live births 51
Legitimate infants 36 Rate per 1,000 legitimate
live births 50
Illegitimate infants 2 Rate per 1,000 illegitimate
live births 66
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 71
Deths from Measles (all ages) 2
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) 1
Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 4