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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 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: TABLE ISummary of Statistics, 1953.

TABLE I

Summary of Statistics, 1953.

Population (mid-year 1953, per Registrar General)64,590
Birth Rate13.6
Death Rate10.7
Maternal Mortality RateNil
Infant Mortality Rate14.8
Number of Births (Live)880
Number of Stillbirths16
Number of Deaths692
Number of Maternal DeathsNil
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year)13
Death Rate of Respiratory Diseases0.91
„ „ „ Tuberculosis0.14
„ „ „ Cancer2.38
„ „ „ Zymotic Diseases0.03
Notifications of Infectious Diseases:
Scarlet Fever120
DiphtheriaNil
Poliomyelitis8
Typhoid Fever1
Puerperal Pyrexia54
Pneumonia (all forms)41
Tuberculosis (new cases)110
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases2
„ ,, „ „ Diarrhœa (under 2 years)3
Number of visits by Sanitary Inspectors10,798