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]
This page requires JavaScript
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1937.
| Population (mid-year 1937, Registrar General) | 58,700 |
| Birth Rate | 13.2 |
| Death Rate (adjusted) 9.9 (crude) | 10.3 |
| Infantile Mortality Rate | 47 |
| Number of Births (live) | 778 |
| Number of Stillbirths | 15 |
| Number of Deaths | 605 |
| Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 37 |
| Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases | 0.6 |
| ,, ,, ,, Tuberculosis | 0.5 |
| „ „ ,, Cancer | |
| ,, ,, ,, Zymotic Diseases | 0.06 |
| Notifications of Scarlet Fever | 104 |
| ,, ,, Diphtheria | 40 |
| ,, ,, Pneumonia | 48 |
| ,, ,, Tuberculosis | 84 |
| Number of Deaths from Measles | |
| ,, ,, ,, ,, Scarlet Fever | 1 |
| ,, ,, ,, ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years) | 7 |
| ,, ,, ,, ,, Child Birth | 3 |
| Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors | 10,726 |
| ,, ,, ,, „ Health Visitors | 8,481 |
| Number of Babies on the Registers at the Welfare Centres, end December, 1937 | 2,306 |