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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 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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TABLE I.
Summary of Statistics 1947
| Population (mid-year 1947, per Registrar General) | 62,640 |
| Birth Rate | 20.9 |
| Death Rate | 11.7 |
| Infant Mortality Rate | 1911 |
| Number of Births (live) | 1,308 |
| Number of Stillbirths | 34 |
| Number of Deaths | 731 |
| Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 25 |
| Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases | 10 |
| „ „ ,, Tuberculosis | •4 |
| „ ,, „ Cancer | 1.9 |
| „ „ „ Zymotic Diseases | •01 |
| Notifications of Scarlet Fever | 135 |
| ,, ,, Diphtheria | 1 |
| „ „ Pneumonia | 54 |
| ,, ,, Tuberculosis | 80 |
| Number of Deaths from Scarlet Fever | — |
| ,, „ „ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years) | — |
| ,, „ „ ,, Child Birth | 1 |
| Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors | 23,659 |
| ,, ,, „ „ Health Visitors | 8,800 |
| Number of Babies on the Nominal Rolls at the Welfare Centres, 31st December, 1947 | 5,168 |