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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: TABLE 1.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1937.

TABLE 1.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1937.

Population (mid-year 1937, Registrar General)58,700
Birth Rate13.2
Death Rate (adjusted) 9.9 (crude)10.3
Infantile Mortality Rate47
Number of Births (live)778
Number of Stillbirths15
Number of Deaths605
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)37
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases0.6
,, ,, ,, Tuberculosis0.5
„ „ ,, Cancer1.5
,, ,, ,, Zymotic Diseases0.06
Notifications of Scarlet Fever104
,, ,, Diphtheria40
,, ,, Pneumonia48
,, ,, Tuberculosis84
Number of Deaths from Measles-
,, ,, ,, ,, Scarlet Fever1
,, ,, ,, ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years)7
,, ,, ,, ,, Child Birth3
Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors10,726
,, ,, ,, „ Health Visitors8,481
Number of Babies on the Registers at the Welfare Centres, end December, 19372,306