London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Orpington 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
This page requires JavaScript
| Area (in acres) | 20,842 |
| Registrar-General's estimate of population, mid-1943 | 48,520 |
| Number of occupied houses, December, 1943 | 16,224 |
| Rateable Value of District, December, 1943 | £483,101 |
| Sum represented by a penny rate, December, 1943 | £1,810 |
| Total. | M. | F. | Birth Rate per 1,000 estimated population | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live births | Legitimate | 975 | 498 | 477 | 21.0 |
| Illegitimate | 47 | 18 | 29 | ||
| Total Births | 1022 | 516 | 506 | ||
| Rate per 1,000 (live and still) birth | |||||
| Still-births | 20 | 13 | 7 | 19.1 | |
| Rate per 1,000 of estimated population. | |||||
| Deaths | 545 | 255 | 290 | 11.2 | |
| Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births. | |||||
| Deaths from Puerperal causes: | Deaths. | ||||
| Puerperal Sepsis | 1 | 0.95 | |||
| Other puerperal causes | - | - | |||
| Infant deaths: | Number. | Rate per 1000. | |||
| All Infants | 30 | 29 | |||
| Legitimate Infants | 29 | 29 | |||
| Illegitimate Infants | 1 | 21 | |||
| Deaths from Cancer (all ages) | 93 | ||||
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | Nil | ||||
| Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) | Nil | ||||
| Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years) | 3 | ||||