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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 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: TABLE I.SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1938.

TABLE I.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1938.

Population (mid-year 1938, Registrar General)59,470
Birth Rate13.1
Death Rate (adjusted) 9.5 (Crude)9.8
Infantile Mortality Rate49.8
Number of Births (live) ...782
Number of Stillbirths30
Number of Deaths ...583
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)39
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases1.0
,, ,, ,, Tuberculosis0.3
,, ,, ,, Cancer1.6
,, ,, ,, Zymotic Diseases0.01
Notifications of Scarlet Fever71
,, ,, Diphtheria19
,, ,, Pneumonia31
,, ,, Tuberculosis65
Number of Deaths from Measles1
Number of Deaths from Scarlet Fever-
,, ,, ,, ,, Diarrhœa (under 2 years)3
,, ,, ,, ,, Child Birth3
Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors9,660
,, ,, ,, ,, Health Visitors8,851
Number of Babies on the Registers at the Welfare Centres, end December, 19382,749