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Bromley 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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APPENDIX I.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1934.
Population (mid-year 1934, Registrar General) 53,890
Birth Rate 13.3
Death Rate (crude) 9.8
Infantile Mortality Rate 43.9
Number of Births (live) 706
Number of Stillbirths 17
Number of Deaths 521
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) 31
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases 0.8
,, ,, ,, Tuberculosis 0.3
„ ,, ,, Cancer 1.3
,, ,, ,, Zymotic Diseases 0.1
Notifications of Scarlet Fever 263
,, ,, Diphtheria 43
,, ,, Pneumonia 16
,, ,, Tuberculosis 89
Number of Deaths from Measles 1
,, ,, ,, ,, Scarlet Fever 3
,, ,, ,, ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 7
,, ,, ,, ,, Child Birth 4
Number of Visits by Sanitary Inspectors 13,690
,, ,, ,, ,, Health Visitors 9,371
i, ,, Babies on the Registers at the
Centres, end December, 1934 1,779