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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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TABLE IX
| Diphtheria | 40 | 16 | 24 | 13 | 4 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 0.6 | 2 | 0.03 |
| Pneumonia | 48 | 19 | 29 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 11 | — | 17 | 0.8 | 26* | 0.4 |
| Peurperal Fever & Pyrexia | 10 | — | 10 | — | — | 1 | 8 | — | 1 | — | 9 | 12.6† | 1 | 1.26† |
| Dysentery | 25 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 4 | — | — | 2 | 17 | 1 | 0.4 | 5 | 0.08 |
| Erysipelas | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 0.1 | — | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | 3.8† | — | — |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 6 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | — | - | 5 | 2 | 0.1 | — | — |
| Typhoid fever | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.01 | — | — |
| Tuberculosis—lungs | 71 | 41 | 30 | 14 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 7 | — | 1.2 | 27 | 0.4 |
| Tuberculosis — other forms | 13 | 7 | 6 | 5 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | — | 0.2 | 5 | 0.08 |
| Totals | 328 | 146 | 182 | 59 | 48 | 51 | 42 | 33 | 57 | 38 | 155 | 5.8 | 67 | 1.1 |
* Includes Pneumonia (all forms), whereas notifiable types include only acute primary pneumonia
and acute influenzal pneumonia.
†These figures are based on the attack rate per 1000 births, and not population.