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Bromley 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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APPENDIX I.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1930.
Population (mid-year, 1929) 41,840
Birth Rate 15.03
Death Rate 10.2
Infantile Mortality Rate 41
Number of Births 629
Number of Deaths 429
Number of Infant Deaths 26
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases 0.7
,, ,, ,, Tuberculosis 0.9
„ „ „ Cancer 1.6
,, ,, ,, Zymotic Diseases 0.2
Notification of Scarlet Fever 163
„ ,, Smallpox 52
,, ,, Diphtheria 54
,, ,, Pneumonia 40
,, ,, Tuberculosis 66
Number of Deaths from Measles 3
,, ,, ,, ,, Scarlet Fever 1
,, ,, „ ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 4
,, ,, „ Child Birth 2
Number of Visits by Sanitary Inspectors 8,703
,, ,, ,, ,, Health Visitors 8,156
„ ,, Babies on the Registers at the
Centres, end December, 1930 1,393