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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

Bromley 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: APPENDIX I.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1931.

APPENDIX I.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1931.

Population (mid-year 1931)45,430
Birth Rate13.5
Death Rate10.9
Infantile Mortality Rate47
Number of Births (live)617
Number of Stillbirths26
Number of Deaths497
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)29
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases1.4
,, ,, ,, Tuberculosis0.7
,, ,, ,, Cancer1.5
,, ,, ,, Zymotic Diseases0.2
Notification of Scarlet Fever198
,, ,, Diphtheria62
,, ,, Pneumonia48
,, ,, Tuberculosis65
Number of Deaths from Measles1
„ ,, ,, ,, Scarlet Fever2
„ ,, ,, ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years)7
„ ,, ,, ,, Child Birth4
Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors10,369
„ ,, ,, ,, Health Visitors5,784
„ ,, Babies on the Registers at the Centres, end December, 19311,378