Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1931.
Population (mid-year 1931) | 45,430 |
Birth Rate | 13.5 |
Death Rate | 10.9 |
Infantile Mortality Rate | 47 |
Number of Births (live) | 617 |
Number of Stillbirths | 26 |
Number of Deaths | 497 |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 29 |
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases | 1.4 |
,, ,, ,, Tuberculosis | 0.7 |
,, ,, ,, Cancer | 1.5 |
,, ,, ,, Zymotic Diseases | 0.2 |
Notification of Scarlet Fever | 198 |
,, ,, Diphtheria | 62 |
,, ,, Pneumonia | 48 |
,, ,, Tuberculosis | 65 |
Number of Deaths from Measles | 1 |
„ ,, ,, ,, Scarlet Fever | 2 |
„ ,, ,, ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years) | 7 |
„ ,, ,, ,, Child Birth | 4 |
Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors | 10,369 |
„ ,, ,, ,, Health Visitors | 5,784 |
„ ,, Babies on the Registers at the Centres, end December, 1931 | 1,378 |