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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 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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SECTION A.—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA, 1944.
Statistics.
Area (in acres)
Registrar General's estimate of resident population
mid-year 1944
No. of inhabited houses according to the rate books
at the close of the year 1944
No. of valuation assessments of habitable premises
at the close of the year 1944 :
(a) Bromley (old (b) Hayes &
Bromley area) Keston
Houses 12,513 2,663
Flats 1,426 74
Farmhouses 13 1
Public Houses 33 5
13,985
Rateable Value (31.3.1945)
2,743
6,519
49,730
16,325
16,728
£694,810
Product of a Penny Rate (Year ending (31.3.46) £2,760
Vital Statistics.
Live Births:
Legitimate
Illegitimate
Total Male Female
755 354 401
65 30 35
820 384 436
Birth rate per 1,000 of
the estimated resident
population :
16.5
Stillbirths:
Legitimate
"legitimate
Total Male Female
19 10 9
1 1 —
20 11 9
Stillbirth Rate per 1,000
(live and still) births :
23.8