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Death Rate of Infants under 1 year of age: —
All infants per 1,000 live births 49.8
Legitimate infants per 1,000 live
births 49.8
Illegitimate infants per 1,000
illegitimate live births —
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 98
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 1
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) —
Deaths from Diarrhæpa (under 2 years of
age) 3
Happily it cannot be reported that there were any
Causes of sickness or invalidity in the area, during the
year, which call for special mention. There are no
Conditions of occupation or environment which would
appear to exert prejudicial effects on the health of the
inhabitants generally.
Social Conditions.
In my Annual Report for 1937, I referred at some
length to the growing practice of transforming houses
originally built for single families into so-called flats
house two or more families. Often there is little or
no structural alteration made to provide separate
sanitary, cooking and washing facilities. It is not my
intention to labour the point again here beyond
iterating that sub-divided dwellings will unquestionably
create undesirable social conditions.
The number of assessed flats in Bromley is l,387,
and one cannot help but view with a certain amount of
misgiving the appearance of blocks of flats in Bromley.
As a solution of acute housing and social problems in
many large cities, perhaps this type of housing accommodation
is unavoidable, and one also realises that the