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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INFECTIOUS DISEASE-1940-1945 (CIVILIAN ONLY).
Attack Rates and Mortality Kates per 1,000 Population (Registrar General).
Estimated Population (Civilian) | 56,580 | 50 430 | 50,480 | 51,300 | 49,730 | 52,310 | ||||||
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Year | 1940. | 1941 | 1942. | 1943. | 1944. | 1945. | ||||||
Attack and Mortality Rates | Attack Rate | Mortality Rate | Attack Rate | Mortality Rate | Attack Rate | Mortality Rate | Attack Rate | Mortality Rate | Attack Rate | Mortality Rate | Attack Rate | Mortality Rate |
Scarlet Fever | 0.86 | 0.01 | 2.35 | _ | 2.06 | — | 3.97 | _ | 2.35 | - | 1.01 | - |
Diphtheria | 0.19 | 0.01 | 0.61 | 0.05 | 0.29 | 0.01 | 0.06 | — | 0.20 | _ | 0.13 | _ |
Enteric | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.02 | - | — | — | — | _ | 0.02 | _ | _ | _ |
Erysipelas | 0.30 | — | 0.25 | — | 0.33 | — | 0.31 | — | 0.14 | — | 0.21 | _ |
Dysentery | 0.10 | — | 0.09 | — | — | — | 0.03 | — | 0.28 | _ | 0.05 | _ |
Cerebro Spinal Fever | 0.22 | 0.03 | 0.09 | — | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.01 | — | 0.04 | _ | 0.03 | ._ |
Encephalitis Lethargica | — | — | — | — | 0.01 | — | — | - | — | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | — | — | 0.05 | 0.02 | — | — | 0.09 | — | 0.02 | — | — | — |
Whooping Cough | 2.48 | — | 3.15 | — | 1.08 | — | 1.83 | 0.01 | 1.62 | 0.02 | 0.59 | — |
Measles | 0.03 | — | 12.71 | 0.02 | 2.39 | — | 10.46 | — | 2.35 | — | 5.41 | 0.02 |
Total comparative rates | 4.31 | 0.05 | 19.45 | 0.09 | 6.24 | 0.05 | 16.93 | 0.01 | 7.03 | 0.08 | 7.49 | 0.04 |
N.B.—Pneumonia and Malaria (contracted abroad) are not included in the above figures.
Attack Rates and Mortality Rates per 1,000 Births.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3.7 | — | 1.49 | — | — | — | 3.33 | — | — | — | — | — |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 2.58 | 1.28 | 10.13 | 4.68 | 7.80 | — | 6.50 | — | 7.14 | — | 13.52 | — |