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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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| Disease | Total | WARDS | Cases removed to Hospital | Attack Rate per 1,000 population | No. of Deaths | Death Rate per 1000 population | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plaistow | Martin's Hill | Town | Sund ridge | Bickley | Bromley Common | Keston and Hayes | ||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 47 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 22 | 0.76 | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 444 | 38 | 64 | 17 | 43 | 47 | 127 | 108 | 13 | 6.9 | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | — | - | - | — | - | - | - | — | - | - | - | - |
| ,. ,, (Non-Paralytic) | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | — | - | - | 1 | 3 | 0.05 | - | - |
| Measles | 1381 | 153 | 129 | 93 | 115 | 158 | 458 | 275 | 12 | 21.4 | 1 | 0.015 |
| Diphtheria | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Pneumonia | 52 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 17 | 0.81 | *31 | 0.48 |
| Dysentery | 6 | I | — | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0.09 | — | - |
| Erysipelas | 7 | 3 | — | 1 | — | — | 3 | — | 3 | 0.18 | - | - |
| Cerebral Spinal Fever | — | — | — | — | - | — | — | - | - | — | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 51 | - | — | 51 | - | - | - | - | 51 | 54.8 t | - | - |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | 1 | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.015 | - | - |
| Tulierculosis (Pulmonary) | 88 | 18 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 22 | 1.36 | 18 | 0.28 |
| Tuberculosis (Non-Pulmonary) | 6 | — | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.09 | 2 | 0.03 |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | — | — | - | - | — | 1 | - | — | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum . | — | - | - | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Totals | 2087 | 223 | 212 | 183 | 184 | 234 | •537 | 414 | 146 | 86.455 | 52 | 0.805 |
| •Includes Pneumonia (all forms). tBased on attack rate per 1,000 total births, and not population | ||||||||||||