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DiphScarlet Whooping Chicken
School theria Fever Measles Cough Mumps Pox
Addison Road 1 6 49
Bickley and
Widmore 6 16 2 - 5 2
Burnt Ash 3 9 86 10 53 17
Bromley
Common - 5 12 - 32 29
Masons Hill - — 18 32 2 44
Parish - 1 64 10 7
Plaistow - 7 3 10 - 8
Raglan Road... 1 9 96 32 127 77
Valley - - 1 15 1 26
Totals 11 53 331 109 227 203
Vaccination.
I am indebted to the Relieving Officers for the
statistics relating to Vaccination Acts. The lowreturn
of cases vaccinated indicates the failure of
the Vaccination Acts, as they stand at the present time,
as an efficient means of creating a population which is
immune against small-pox. Of the 605 live births
occurring in Bromley during the year only 291 of the
infants were vaccinated, but this does not take into
consideration the small number of those vaccinated
privately and not under the Vaccination Acts.
Tuberculosis.
The incidence of Tuberculosis within the Borough
is practically stable on comparison with 1931. Appendix
X. gives in tabular form the number of notified cases in
age groups together with particulars of mortality.
The Tuberculosis register, which is required to be
kept under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1930, shows at the end of the year 1932 the
following analysis of cases:—