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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 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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SECTION A—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL
CONDITIONS OF THE AREA, 1940.
Statistics.
Area (in acres) 6,519
Registrar General's estimate of—7
(a) Resident population (mid-1940)
(1)) Average population appropriate 56,580
to the calculation of death
rates (mid-1940)
Number of inhabited houses according
to tlie rate books (1.4.1941) 16,058
Number of valuation assessments of
inhabitable premises (31.3.1941) 17,040
Rateable Value (31.3.1941) £714,OSS
Product of a Penny Rate (estimated
for year ending 31.3.42) £2,755
Vital Statistics.
Live Births.
For Calculating Birth Rates.
Legitimate
Illegitimate
Total.
748
22
770
Male.
368
11
379
Female.
380
11
391 |
Birtli Rate per
1,000 of the
estimated
resident population
711 id-1040:
13.2
For Calculating Infant and
Maternal Mortality Rates.
Legitimate
Illegitimate
Total.
729
22
751
Male.
359
11
370
Female.
370
11
381