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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 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: APPENDIX 1.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1935.

APPENDIX 1.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1935.

Population (mid-year 1935, Registrar General)56,200
Birth Rate13.5
Death Rate (crude)9.7
Infantile Mortality Rate27.7
Number of Births (live)758
Number of Stillbirths15
Number of Deaths548
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)21
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases0.6
„ „ „ Tuberculosis0.5
„ „ „ Cancer1.5
„ „ „ Zymotic Diseases0.1
Notifications of Scarlet Fever167
„ „ Diphtheria44
„ „ Pneumonia36
„ „Tuberculosis67
Number of Deaths from Measles—
„ „ „ „ Scarlet Fever1
„ „ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years)1
„ „ „ „ Child Birth1
Number of Visits by Sanitary Inspectors10,970
„ „ „ „ Health Visitors9,683
Number of Babies on the Registers at the Wel-
fare Centres, end December, 19352,081