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Death Kate of Infants under 1 year of age:—
All infants per 1,000 live births 47.
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate
live births 47.
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate
live births 51.
Deaths from cancer (all ages) 88
Deaths from measles (all ages) Nil.
Deaths from whooping cough (all ages) 1
Deaths from diarrhoea (under 2 years of
age) 7
Social Conditions.
An anti-social feature from which Bromley is by no
means exempt, is the number of houses, originally
designed for occupation by a single family, that are, with
little or no structural alteration, being occupied by two or
more families. This sub-division of houses whether they
be large or small in type is to be deprecated. Apart from
being detrimental to the amenities of a residential town,
there are distinct disadvantages from the health aspect, for
these sub-divided dwellings usually lack separate sanitary,
cooking and washing facilities. The practice of subletting
six-room houses into so called flats is becoming too
prevalent. It is a form of housing evil which can continue
to exist without the knowledge of the local authority. The
remedy would appear to be the institution of regulations
which would require prior information to the authority
when sub-division of a dwelling-house is proposed; appropriate
supervision could then be exercised and so ensure
that proper structural alterations were made to provide
normal living requirements. The foregoing commentary
is mainly a housing problem, but nevertheless it does affect
the social conditions of a town.