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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 1946
[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 |