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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 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: TABLE I.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1936.

TABLE I.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1936.

Population (mid-year 1936, Registrar General)57,850
Birth Rate13.5
Death Rate (crude)9.8
Infantile Mortality Rate37
Number of Births (live)780
Number of Stillbirths26
Number of Deaths567
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)29
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases1.02
,, ,, ,, Tuberculosis0.6
„ „ „ Cancer1.5
,, ,, ,, Zymotic Diseases0.2
Notifications of Scarlet Fever141
,, ,, Diphtheria23
,, ,, Pneumonia47
,, ,, Tuberculosis85
Number of Deaths from Measles9
,, ,, ,, „ Scarlet Fever2
,, ,, ,, ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years)1
,, ,, ,, ,, Child Birth3
Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors12,002
,, ,, ,, „ Health Visitors8,654
Number of Babies on the Registers at the Welfare Centres, end December, 19362,518