Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
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Population (mid-year 1956, per Registrar General) | 70,410 |
Birth Rate (crude) | 17.3 |
Death Rate (crude) | 9.2 |
Maternal Mortality Rate | Nil |
Infant Mortality Rate | 20.51 |
Number of Births (live) | 1,219 |
Number of Stillbirths | 20 |
Number of Deaths | 648 |
Number of Maternal Deaths | Nil |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 25 |
Death Rates— | |
Respiratory Diseases | 1.9 |
Tuberculosis | 0.1 |
Cancer (all forms) | 1.86 |
Cancer of the Lung | 0.48 |
Infectious Diseases | 0.01 |
Notifications of Infectious Diseases— | |
Diphtheria | Nil |
Dysentery | 50 |
Erysipelas | 3 |
Food Poisoning | 36 |
Measles | 33 |
Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | 5 |
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | 5 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 72 |
Pneumonia (all forms) | 43 |
Scarlet Fever | 40 |
Tuberculosis (new cases and including Inward Transfers) | 111 |
Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fever | 1 |
Whooping Cough | 227 |
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | 1 |
Number of Visits made by Public Health Inspectors | 6,410 |