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, 1946.
Population (mid-year 1946, Registrar General) | 60,540 |
Birth Rate | 19.4 |
Death Rate (Crude) | 10.8 |
Infantile Mortality Rate | 26.3 |
Number of Births (live) | 1,176 |
Number of Stillbirths | 33 |
Number of Deaths | 656 |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 31 |
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases | 1.1 |
„ „ „ Tuberculosis | 0.3 |
„ „ „ Cancer | 1.8 |
„ „ „ Zymotic Diseases | 0.01 |
Notifications of Scarlet Fever | 51 |
„ „ Diphtheria | 12 |
„ „ Pneumonia | 39 |
„ „ Tuberculosis | 74 |
Number of Deaths from Measles | — |
Number of Deaths from Scarlet Fever | — |
„ „ „ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years) | 1 |
„ „ „ „ Child Birth | 1 |
Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors | 15,070 |
„ „ „ „ Health Visitors | 7,393 |
Number of Babies on the Nominal Rolls at the Welfare Centres, end December, 1946 | 4,748 |