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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Birth Kates, Crude Death Rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Death Rates, and Case-Rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the Year 1936 (Provisional Figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns).
Bromley. | England and Wales. | 122 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London. | 143 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census) | London Administrative County. | |
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Rates per 1000 Population. | |||||
Live | 13.5 | 14.8 | 14.9 | 15.0 | 13.6 |
Still | 0.45 | 0.61 | 0.67 | 0.64 | 0.53 |
All causes | 9.8 | 12.1 | 12.3 | 11.5 | 12.5 |
Typhoid | — | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
Smallpox Measles | 0.15 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.04 | 0.14 |
Scarlet Fever | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
Whooping cough | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.06 |
Diphtheria | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Influenza | 0.10 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.14 |
Violence | 0.36 | 0.52 | 0.45 | 0.39 | 0.52 |
Smallpox | — | — | - | — | — |
Scarlet Fever | 2.43 | 2.53 | 2.18 | 2.48 | 2.57 |
Diphtheria | 0.39 | 1.39 | 1.31 | 1.26 | 1.69 |
Enteric Fever | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.06 |
Erysipelas | 0.46 | 0.40 | 0.38 | 0.35 | 0.44 |
Pneumonia | 0.81 | 1.11 | 1.10 | 0.96 | 0.99 |
Deaths under 1 year of age | Rates per 1000 Live Births. | ||||
37 | 59 | 63 | 55 | 66 | |
Deaths from Diarrhœa and Enteritis under 2 years of age | 1.3 | 5.9 | 8.2 | 3.4 | 14.4 |
Puerperal Sepsis | 1.28 | 1.40 | Not avail-able. | ||
Others | 2.56 | 2.41 | |||
Total | 3.84 | 3.81 | |||
Rates per | 1000 Total Births {i.e., Live and Still). | |||||
Puerperal Sepsis | 1.24 | 1.34 | Not avail- able. | ||
Others | 2.48 | 2.31 | |||
Total | 3.72 | 3.65 | |||
Puerperal Fever | 1.24 | 3.27 | 3.46 | 2.80 | 3.03 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 6.20 | 9.64 | 9.52 | 7.57 | 11.15 |