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Bromley 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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APPENDIX I.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1932.
Population (mid-year 1932) 46,809
Birth Rate 12.9
Death Rate 10.7
Infantile Mortality Rate 33.05
Number of Births (live) 605
Number of Stillbirths 24
Number of Deaths 504
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) 20
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases 0.9
„ ,, ,, Tuberculosis 0.7
,, ,, ,, Cancer 1.6
„ ,, ,, Zymotic Diseases 0.17
Notification of Scarlet Fever 124
,, ,, Diphtheria 12
„ ,, Pneumonia 75
,, ,, Tuberculosis 76
Number of Deaths from Measles 2
„ ,, ,, ,, Scarlet Fever 3
,. ,, ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 1
„ ,, ,, ,, Child Birth 2
Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors 10,202
,, ,, ,, ,, Health Visitors 6.118
„ ,, Babies on the Registers at the
Centres, end December, 1932 1,421