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, 1935.
Population (mid-year 1935, Registrar General) | 56,200 |
Birth Rate | 13.5 |
Death Rate (crude) | 9.7 |
Infantile Mortality Rate | 27.7 |
Number of Births (live) | 758 |
Number of Stillbirths | 15 |
Number of Deaths | 548 |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 21 |
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases | 0.6 |
„ „ „ Tuberculosis | 0.5 |
„ „ „ Cancer | 1.5 |
„ „ „ Zymotic Diseases | 0.1 |
Notifications of Scarlet Fever | 167 |
„ „ Diphtheria | 44 |
„ „ Pneumonia | 36 |
„ „Tuberculosis | 67 |
Number of Deaths from Measles | — |
„ „ „ „ Scarlet Fever | 1 |
„ „ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years) | 1 |
„ „ „ „ Child Birth | 1 |
Number of Visits by Sanitary Inspectors | 10,970 |
„ „ „ „ Health Visitors | 9,683 |
Number of Babies on the Registers at the Wel- | |
fare Centres, end December, 1935 | 2,081 |