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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 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: TABLE I.Summary of Statistics 1948.

TABLE I.

Summary of Statistics 1948.

Population (mid-year 1948, per Registrar General)63,360
Birth Rate16.4
Death Rate9.9
Infant Mortality Rate20.15
Number of Births (live)1,042
Number of Stillbirths24
Number of Deaths631
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)21
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases0.9
„ „ „ Tuberculosis0.3
„ „ „ Cancer1.8
„ „ „ Zymotic Diseases0.01
Notifications of Scarlet Fever124
„ „ Diphtheria3
„ „ Pneumonia31
„ „ Tuberculosis96
Number of Deaths from Scarlet Fever—
„ „ ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years)—
„ „ „ Child Birth2
Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors29,342
„ „ „ „ Health Visitors (to 5th July, 1948)5,226