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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 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Table: TABLE 1 Summary of Statistics, 1952

TABLE 1 Summary of Statistics, 1952

Population (mid-year 1952, per Registrar General)63,670
Birth Rate14.7
Death Rate8.9
Maternal Mortality Rate—
Infant Mortality Rate18.2
Number of Births (live)934
Number of Stillbirths17
Number of Deaths565
Number of Maternal Deaths—
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)17
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases (including Influenza but not Tuberculosis)1.21
Death Rate of Tuberculosis0.17
Death Rate of Zymotic Diseases0.03
Notification of Infectious Diseases
Scarlet Fever168
Diphtheria—
Poliomyelitis4
Typhoid Fever—
Paratyphoid Fever—
Puerperal Pyrexia7
Pneumonia (all forms)122
Tuberculosis (new cases)58
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases2
Number of Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years)—
Number of Deaths from Childbirth—
Number of Visits by Sanitary Inspectors14,207