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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
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| Population (mid-year, 1951, per Registrar General) | 62,850 |
| Birth Rate | 14.9 |
| Death Rate . | 10.4 |
| Maternal Mortality Rate | — |
| Infant Mortality Rate | 19.2 |
| Number of Births (live) | 939 |
| Number of Stillbirths | 24 |
| Number of Deaths | 654 |
| Number of Maternal Deaths | — |
| Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 18 |
| Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases (incl. Influenza but not Tuberculosis | 1.36 |
| Death Rate of Tuberculosis | 0.3 |
| Death Rate of Cancer | 1.91 |
| Death Rate of Zymotic Diseases | — |
| Notifications of Infectious Diseases— | |
| Scarlet Fever .- | 94 |
| Diphtheria | — |
| Poliomyelitis | 61 |
| Typhoid Fever | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 5 |
| Pneumonia | 143 |
| Tuberculosis (new cases) | 56 |
| Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | — |
| Number of Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years) | — |
| Number of Visits by Sanitary Inspectors | 14,826 |