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 1957, per Registrar General) | 72,170 |
Birth Rate (crude) | 18.0 |
Death Rate (crude) | 8.7 |
Maternal Mortality Rate | 0.76 |
Infant Mortality Rate | 19.2 |
Number of Births (live) | 1,302 |
Number of Stillbirths | 13 |
Number of Deaths | 628 |
Number of Maternal Deaths | 1 |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 25 |
Death Rates— | |
Respiratory Diseases | 1.22 |
Tuberculosis | 0.06 |
Cancer (all forms) | 1.82 |
Cancer of the Lung | 0.46 |
Infectious Diseases | 0.01 |
Notifications of Infectious Diseases— | |
Diphtheria | Nil |
Dysentery | 33 |
Erysipelas | 3 |
Food Poisoning | 19 |
Measles | 1,874 |
Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | 3 |
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | 4 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 72 |
Pneumonia (all forms) | 17 |
Scarlet Fever | 30 |
Tuberculosis (new cases and including Inward Transfers) | 128 |
Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fever | 1 |
Whooping Cough | 228 |
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | 1 |
Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors | 5,257 |