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Orpington 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
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STATISTICAL TABLES, 1962.
TABLE I. Summary of Statistics.
TABLE II. Causes of Death.
TABLE III. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Sex and Age Distribution.
TABLE IV. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Ward Distribution,
Attack and Mortality Rates.
TABLE V. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Seasonal Incidence.
TABLE VI. Summary of the work of the Public Health Inspectors.
TABLE VII. Nuisances, Defects and Contraventions Abated.
TABLE I.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1962.
| Population (mid-year 1962) per Registrar General | 80,950 |
| Birth Rate (crude) (per 1,000 estimated total population) | 17.4 |
| Death Rate (crude) (per 1,000 estimated total population) | 9.5 |
| Maternal Mortality Rate (per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) | Nil |
| Stillbirth Rate (per 1,000 live and stillbirths) | 16.8 |
| Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 total live births) | 14.2 |
| Number of Births (live) | 1,407 |
| Number of Stillbirths | 24 |
| Number of Deaths | 771 |
| Number of Maternal Deaths | Nil |
| Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 20 |
| Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | 3 |
| Death Rates:— | |
| Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis) | 1.28 |
| Tuberculosis | 0.09 |
| Cancer (all forms) | 1.91 |
| Cancer of the lung, bronchus | 0.58 |
| Infectious Diseases | 0.04 |
| Notifications of Infectious Diseases:— | |
| Diphtheria | Nil |
| Dysentery | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 3 |
| Food Poisoning | 45 |
| Measles | 253 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 20 |
| Pneumonia (all forms) | 29 |
| Scarlet Fever | 29 |
| Tuberculosis (new cases and including Inward Transfers) | 58 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever | Nil |
| Whooping Cough | 3 |
| Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors | 5,184 |