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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 1959

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Table: TABLE I.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1959

TABLE I.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1959

Population (mid-year, 1959) per Registrar General74,620
Birth Rate (Crude)18.6
Death Rate (Crude)10.1
Maternal Mortality RateNil
Infant Mortality Rate14.4
Number of Births (live)1,388
Number of Stillbirths21
Number of Deaths751
Number of Maternal DeathsNil
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)20
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases3
Death Rates:—
Respiratory Diseases1.43
Tuberculosis0.05
Cancer (all forms)2.31
Cancer of the lung0.64
Infectious Diseases0.04
Notifications of Infectious Diseases:
DiphtheriaNil
Dysentery4
Erysipelas3
Food Poisoning38
Measles1,570
Poliomyelitis (paralytic)2
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic)2
Puerperal Pyrexia60
Pneumonia (all forms)13
Scarlet Fever106
Tuberculosis (new cases and including Inward Transfers)87
Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fever—
Whooping Cough50
Number of Visits made by Public Health Inspectors7,091