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Bromley 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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INFECTIOUS DISEASE-1940-1945 (CIVILIAN ONLY).

Attack Rates and Mortality Kates per 1,000 Population (Registrar General).

Estimated Population (Civilian)56,58050 43050,48051,30049,73052,310
Year1940.19411942.1943.1944.1945.
Attack and Mortality RatesAttack RateMortality RateAttack RateMortality RateAttack RateMortality RateAttack RateMortality RateAttack RateMortality RateAttack RateMortality Rate
Scarlet Fever0.860.012.35_2.063.97_2.35-1.01-
Diphtheria0.190.010.610.050.290.010.060.20_0.13_
Enteric0.080.010.02-_0.02___
Erysipelas0.300.250.330.310.140.21_
Dysentery0.100.090.030.28_0.05_
Cerebro Spinal Fever0.220.030.090.050.040.010.04_0.03._
Encephalitis Lethargica0.01-0.040.020.02
Acute Poliomyelitis0.050.020.090.02
Whooping Cough2.483.151.081.830.011.620.020.59
Measles0.0312.710.022.3910.462.355.410.02
Total comparative rates4.310.0519.450.096.240.0516.930.017.030.087.490.04

N.B.—Pneumonia and Malaria (contracted abroad) are not included in the above figures.

Attack Rates and Mortality Rates per 1,000 Births.

Ophthalmia Neonatorum3.71.493.33
Puerperal Pyrexia2.581.2810.134.687.806.507.1413.52