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Orpington 1944
[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-1944 46,980
Number of occupied houses, December, 1944 15,797
Rateable Value of District, December, 1944 £487,667
Sum represented by a penny rate, December, 1944 £1,880
VITAL STATISTICS.
| Total | M. | F. | Birth Hate per 1,000 estimated population | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births | Legitimate | 1020 | 535 | 485 | 22.7 | ||
| Illegitimate | 48 | 34 | 14 | ||||
| Total Births | 1068 | 569 | 499 | ||||
| Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births | |||||||
| Still-births | 17 | 9 | 8 | 25.6 | |||
| Rate per 1,000 of estimated population. | |||||||
| Deaths | 536 | 280 | 256 | 11.4 | |||
| Deaths from Puerperal causes: | Deaths. | Hate per 1,000 total (live and still) births. | |||||
| Puerperal sepsis | Nil | ||||||
| Other pueperal causes | 2 | 1.84 | |||||
Infant deaths: Number
of Deaths.
All Infants 30 Rate per 1,000 live births 28
Legitimate Infants 25 Rate per 1,000 legitimate live
births 24
Illegitimate Infants 5 Rate per 1,000 illegitimate
live births 104
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 100
Deaths from Measles (all ages) —
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) 1
Deaths from Diarrhœa (under 2 years) 2