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Orpington 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
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statistical tables, 1964
TABLE I Summary of Statistics
TABLE II Causes of Death.
TABLE III Notifiable Infectious Diseases - Sex and Ago 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,1964.
| Population (mid-year 1964) per Registrar General | 82,520 |
| Birth Rate (crude) (per 1,000 estimated total population) | 16.7 |
| Death Rate (crude) (per 1,000 estimated total population) | 8.2 |
| Maternal Mortality Rate (per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) | 0.7 |
| Stillbirth Rate (per 1,000 live and Stillbirths) | 15.0 |
| Infant Mortality Rate (per 1.000 total live births) | 13.8 |
| Number of Births (live) | 1,378 |
| Number of Stillbirths | 21 |
| Number of Deaths | 677 |
| Number of Maternal Deaths | l |
| Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 19 |
| Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | 2 |
| Death Rates:- | |
| Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis) | 102 |
| Tuberculosis | 4 |
| Cancer (all forms) | 153 |
| Cancer of the lung, bronchus | 47 |
| Infectious Diseases | 2 |
| Notifications of Infectious Diseases:- | |
| Diphtheria | Nil |
| Dysentery | 5 |
| Erysipelas | 4 |
| Food Poisoning | 7 |
| Measles | 427 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Nil |
| Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | Nil |
| Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | Nil |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 33 |
| Pneumonia (all forms) | 19 |
| Scarlet Fever | 15 |
| Tuberculosis (new cases and including Inward Transfers) | 35 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever | Nil |
| Whooping Cough | 61 |
| Number of visits made by Public Health Inspectors | 6,111 |