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]
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TABLE I.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1938.
Population (mid-year 1938, Registrar General) | 59,470 |
Birth Rate | 13.1 |
Death Rate (adjusted) 9.5 (Crude) | 9.8 |
Infantile Mortality Rate | 49.8 |
Number of Births (live) ... | 782 |
Number of Stillbirths | 30 |
Number of Deaths ... | 583 |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 39 |
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases | 1.0 |
,, ,, ,, Tuberculosis | 0.3 |
,, ,, ,, Cancer | 1.6 |
,, ,, ,, Zymotic Diseases | 0.01 |
Notifications of Scarlet Fever | 71 |
,, ,, Diphtheria | 19 |
,, ,, Pneumonia | 31 |
,, ,, Tuberculosis | 65 |
Number of Deaths from Measles | 1 |
Number of Deaths from Scarlet Fever | - |
,, ,, ,, ,, Diarrhœa (under 2 years) | 3 |
,, ,, ,, ,, Child Birth | 3 |
Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors | 9,660 |
,, ,, ,, ,, Health Visitors | 8,851 |
Number of Babies on the Registers at the Welfare Centres, end December, 1938 | 2,749 |