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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 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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TABLE I.
Summary of Statistics 1949.
| Population (raid-year 1949, per Registrar General) | 64,140 |
| Birth Rate | 16.1 |
| Death Rate | 10.9 |
| Maternal Mortality Rate | 0.95 |
| Infant Mortality Rate | 15.5 |
| Number of Births (live) | 1,030 |
| Number of Stillbirths | 23 |
| Number of Deaths | 699 |
| Number of Maternal Deaths | 1 |
| Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 16 |
| Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases | 1.3 |
| „ „ „ Tuberculosis | 0.3 |
| „ „ „ Cancer | 2.2 |
| „ „ Zymotic Diseases | 0.05 |
| Notifications of Scarlet Fever | 139 |
| „ „ Diphtheria | 1 |
| ,. „ Poliomyelitis | 7 |
| ,, Typhoid Fever | 2 |
| „ Puerperal Pyrexia | 25 |
| ,, „ Pneumonia | 30 |
| .. „ Tuberculosis (New Cases) | 86 |
| Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | 28 |
| „ „ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years) | 1 |
| „ „ „ Child Birth | 1 |
| Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors | 25,256 |