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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 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Table: TABLE L SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1955.

TABLE L SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1955.

Population (mid-year 1955, per Registrar General)68,450
Birth Rate (crude)15.8
Death Rate (crude)9.1
Maternal Mortality RateNil
Infant Mortality Rate17.5
Number of Births (live)1,083
Number of Stillbirths19
Number of Deaths624
Number of Maternal DeathsNil
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)19
Death Rates—Respiratory Diseases1.15
Tuberculosis0.09
Cancer (all forms)1.96
Cancer of the Lung0.34
Zymotic Diseases0.03
Notifications of Infectious Diseases:—
Diphtheria—
Dysentery42
Erysipelas8
Food Poisoning6
Measles1,048
Poliomyelitis (paralytic)10
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic)6
Puerperal Pyrexia90
Pneumonia (all forms)106
Scarlet Fever58
Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fever1
Tuberculosis (new cases and including Inward Transfers)100
Whooping Cough205
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases2
Number of Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years)Nil
Number of Visits made by Sanitary Inspectors5,444