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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 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Table: TABLE I.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1954

TABLE I.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1954

Population (mid-year 1954. per Registrar General)66.380
Birth Rate15.8
Death Rate7.8
Maternal Mortality RateNil
Infant Mortality Rate14.3
Number of Births (live)1.047
Number of Stillbirths32
Number* of Deaths516
Number of Maternal DeathsNil
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)15
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases (including Influenza but not Tuberculosis)0.68
Death Rate of Tuberculosis0.07
Death Rate of Zymotic Diseases0.01
Notifications of Infectious Diseases:—
Diphtheria—
Poliomyelitis1
Paratyphoid Fever2
Typhoid Fever—
Puerperal Pyrexia93
Pneumonia (all forms)56
Scarlet Fever111
Tuberculosis (new cases)46
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases2
Number of Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years)Nil
Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors5,637