[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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VITAL STATISTICS Live Births.

	Males.	Females.	Total

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Stillbirths.

	Males.	Females.	Total

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Infant Mortality.

	Males.	Females.	Total.

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The following is an analysis of the ages at death :—

	Male.	Female.

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Full details of the causes of death will be found in Table III in the appendix, but the following table of comparative rates per 1,000 population for the last seven years of certain causes of death in the Borough may be of interest:—

	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956

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The following tabulation gives details of deaths from all forms of cancer for the past ten years :—

Year.	Males.	Females.	Total.

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Deaths from cancer of the lung and bronchus during the past seven years :—

Year.	Males.	Females.	Total.

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LOCAL SICKNESS The following details have been received from the Ministry of National Insurance during 1956. These figures follow the expected trend, namely, that the highest incidence of illness normally occurs during January and February, and declines to its lowest level in August, after which it tends to rise again.

	Number of certificates of incapacity.
Four weeks ending	First.	Intermediate.	Final.

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" The following figures indicate the volume of unemployment in the Borough during 1956 :—

	Men.	Women.	Total.

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Details of the work of disinfection and disinfestation carried out during the year are as under :—

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	Articles Treated.	Articles Destroyed.

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Details of specimens, etc., sent to these laboratories are as under :—

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Details of the Homes registered are :—

Address	No. of Beds	Surgical	Number of new patients received during 1956 Medical and Chronic

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The undermentioned report has been received from the Chief Officer of the Welfare Department, London County Council

	" Town Court "	" The Vane "

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During the year 1956 demands for the service continued to be heavy and the following cases received assistance :—

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The following are the aggregate totals under the respective headings :—

	Total No. of Inspections and Visits.	Total No. of Defects and Nuisances found.

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Notices issued :—

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Average results of the Chemical and Bacteriological examination of the water supplied to Bromley during the year 1956. Milligrammes per litre (unless otherwise stated).

	Shortlands Well No. 1	Shortlands Well No. 2	West Wickham Well	Orpington Well	North Orpington New Bore Hole	North Orpington Well No. 1	Thames-derived filtered water

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Bacteriological Results

	Shortlands Wells	West Wickham Well	Orpington Well	North Orpington Wells	Thames-derived filtered water

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TEMPORARY HOUSING:

	Properties.	Units.	Occupied.

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Two hundred and forty-four shops and food premises have been registered under the above Act, as follow :—

	Manufacture, sale or storage of Ice Cream	Preparation and manufacture of Pres'vd Foods etc.

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BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS. Milk.

No. of Samples taken.	Description.	Result
No. of Samples taken.	Description.	Satisfactory.	Unsatisfactory

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Ice Cream.

No. of Samples Taken	Description	Satis.	Unsatis.	Methylene Blue Group
No. of Samples Taken	Description	Satis.	Unsatis.	I.	II.	III.	IV

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The following tabulation shows the results obtained in respect of the 1,027 samples examined from 1st May, 1947 to 31st December, 1956 :—

Year	Grade I No. of Samples	%	Grade 11 No. of Samples	%	Grade III No. of Samples	%	Grade IV No. of Samples	%	Total No. of Samples

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Carcases Inspected and Condemned.

	Cattlexcluding Cows	Cows	Calves	Sheep and Lambs	Pigs

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The following are details of the recordings in the register for the year ended 31st December, 1956.

	Respiratory.		Other forms.		Total number of cases.
	M.	F.	M.	F.	Total number of cases.

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New cases and Mortality, 1956:—

Age groups	New cases notified or otherwise revealed. (Not including Inward Transfers.)*				Deaths.
	Pulmonary.		Non-Pulmonary.		Pulmonary.		Non-Pulmonary.
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.

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New cases attending the Chest Clinic for the first time during 1956:—

	Adults.		Children.
	M.	F.	M.	F.

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New Contacts examined durine 1956:—

Negative.		Positive.
M.	F.	M.	F.

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TABLE I. Summary of Statistics, 1956.

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Notifications of Infectious Diseases:

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TABLE II. Vital Statistics of the Borough for the Past Ten Years.

Year	Population	No. of Births (live)	No. of Deaths	No. of Infant Deaths	No. of Maternal Deaths	Birth Rate (per 1,000 population)	Death Rate (per 1,000 population)	Infant Mortality (per 1,000 live births)	Maternal Mortality (per 1,000 live and still births

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TABLE III. Causes of Death.

	1952	1953	19G4	1956	Male	1966 Female	Total

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TABLE IV. Infant Mortality, 1956. (Compiled locally from Registrar's Death Returns)

CAUSES OF DEATH	Under 1 Week	1 and under 2 Weeks	2 and under 3 Weeks	3 and under 4 Weeks	Total under 4 Weeks	1 month and under 3 Months	3 months and under 6 Months	6 Months and under 9 Months	9 Months and under 12 Months	Total Deaths under 1 year

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TABLE V. Analysis of Causes of Infant Deaths. 1947-1956.

	1947	1948	1949	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	Total

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TABLE VI, Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1956—Ward Distribution, Attack and Mortality Rates.

Disease	Total	WARDS							Cases removed to Hospital	Attack Rate per 1,000 population	No. of Deaths	Death Rate per 1,000 population
Disease	Total	Plaistow	Martins Hill	Town	Sun-dridge	Bickley	Bromley Common	Keston and Hayes	Cases removed to Hospital	Attack Rate per 1,000 population	No. of Deaths	Death Rate per 1,000 population

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TABLE VII. Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1956—Seasonal Incidence.

Disease	Jan.	Feb.	Mch.	Apl.	May	June	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Total

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TABLE VIII. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. The Borough Engineer has kindly furnished the following information from the records at the Climatological Station, Church House Gardens:—

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Commons, Public Recreation Grounds and Gardens. Six hundred and three acres of land have been secured or reserved for public recreational purposes, representing 9.2 per cent. of the total acreage of the Borough.

	Acres.	Roods.	Poles.

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FACTORIES ACTS, 1937 AND 1948. The following is a copy of the return supplied to the Ministry of Labour and National Service in respect of the year 1956:— I. Inspections for purposes of provisions as to health.

Premises	Number on Register	Number of		Occupiers Prosecuted
Premises	Number on Register	Inspections	Written Notices	Occupiers Prosecuted

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II. Cases in which Defects were found.

	No. of cases in which defects were: Referred				Number of cases in which prosecutions were instituted.
	Found.	Remedied.	To H.M. Inspector.	By H.M. I nspector.

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TABLE XI. PREVENTION OF DAMAGE BY PESTS ACT, 1949.

TYPE OF PROPERTY
Local Authority	Non-Agricultural			Agricultural
Local Authority	Dwelling Houses (including Council Houses)	Allother (including business premises)	Total of Cols. (1) (2) & (3)	Agricultural
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)

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TABLE XII. FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1955. Food Sampling.

Article	Samples taken.		Result.		Adulterated	Remarks
	Formal.	Informal.	Genuine.	Inferior

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Article	Samples taken.		Result.		Adult-crated	Remarks
	Formal.	Informal.	Genuine.	Inferior.

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Article	Samples taken.		Result.		Adulterated	Remarks
Article	Formal.	Informal.	Genuine.	Inferior.	Adulterated	Remarks

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Article	Samples taken.		Result.		Adulterated.	Remarks
Article	Formal.	Informal.	Genuine.	Inferior.	Adulterated.	Remarks

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TABLE XIII. Summary of the work of the Public Health Inspectors for the year 1956.

TYPE OF INSPECTION.	On Complaint	Routine	Re Inspection	Total Visits	Nuisances Found

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TABLE XIII. (Continued)

Type of Inspection	On Complaint	Routine	Re-Inspec-tion	Total Visits	Nuisances Found

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TABLE XIII. (Continued)

TYPE OF INSPECTION	On Complaint	Routine	Re-Inspection	Total Visits	Nuisances Found

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TABLE XIV. Nuisances, Defects, Contraventions, etc., Abated or Remedied in 1956.

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TABLE XIV. (Continued)

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TABLE XIV. (Continued)

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SCHOOL ROLLS, FURTHER EDUCATION AND CLINICS

	Numbers on School Roll.
	1953	1954	1955	1956

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The following table gives details of the incidence and number of cases of the various diseases notified :—

Disease	Total No. of cases	No. admitted to Hospital	Seasonal incidence
Disease	Total No. of cases	No. admitted to Hospital	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apl.	May	June	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.

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TABLE I. Medical Inspection of Pupils Attending Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools. A. Periodic Medical Inspections. Age Groups inspected and number of pupils examined: —

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C. Pupils Found to Require Treatment. Number of Individual Pupils found at Periodic Medical Inspections to require treatment (excluding Dental Diseases and Infestation with Vermin).

Age Group	For defective vision (excluding squint)	For any of the other conditions recorded in Table III.A.	Total individual pupils

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D. Classification of the Physical Condition of Pupils Inspected.

Age Groups	Number of Pupils Inspected	Satisfactory		Unsatisfactory
Age Groups	Number of Pupils Inspected	No.	% of Col. 2	No.	% of Col. 2
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)

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TABLE II. Infestation with Vermin.

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TABLE III. Return of Defects Found by Medical Inspection in the year 1956. A. Periodic Inspections.

Defect Code No.	Defect or Disease	Periodic Inspections				Total (including all other age groups inspected)
		Entrants		Leavers		Total (including all other age groups inspected)
		Requiring treatment	Requiring observation	Requiring treatment	Requiring observation	Requiring treatment	Requiring observation
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)

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TABLE III. (Continued) B. Spccial Inspections.

Defect Code No.	Defect or Disease	Special Inspections
Defect Code No.	Defect or Disease	Requiring Treatment	Requiring Observation
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)

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Tonsillectomy. Children attending maintained schools who have at some time or other undergone tonsillectomy: —

	Number

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TABLE IV. Group I.—Eye Diseases, Defective Vision and Squint.

	Number of cases known to have been dealt with:
	By the Authority.	Otherwise.

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Group II.—Diseases and Defects of Ear, Nose and Throat.

	Number of cases known to have been treated:
	By the Authority.	Otherwise.

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Group IV.—Diseases of the Skin (excluding uncleanliness for which see Table II).

	Number of cases treated or under treatment during the year by the Authority.

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Group V. —Child Guidance Treatment.

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TABLE V. Dental Inspection and Treatment Carried Out by the Authority.

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TABLE VI. Orthoptic Clinic.

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TABLE VII. Handicapped Pupils Requiring Education at Special Schools Approved Under Section 9(5) of the Education Act, 1944 or Hoarding in Boarding Homes.

	1. Blind	2. Partially Sighted	3. Deaf	4. Partially Deaf	5. Delicate	6. Physically Handicapped	7. Educationally Sub-normal	8. Maladjusted	9. Epileptic	T O T A L 1—9

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	1. Blind	2. Partially Sighted	3. Deaf	4. Partially Deaf	5. Delicate	6. Physically Handicapped	7. Educationally Sub-normal	8. Maladjusted	9. Epileptic	T O T A L 1—9

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TABLE VIII. Independent Schools.

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Table of Defects found by Medical Inspection.

Defect or Disease.	Number of Defects:—
Defect or Disease.	Requiring treatment.	Requiring observation

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VITAL STATISTICS Live Births.

Stillbirths.

Infant Mortality.

The following is an analysis of the ages at death :—

Full details of the causes of death will be found in Table III in the appendix, but the following table of comparative rates per 1,000 population for the last seven years of certain causes of death in the Borough may be of interest:—

The following tabulation gives details of deaths from all forms of cancer for the past ten years :—

Deaths from cancer of the lung and bronchus during the past seven years :—

" The following figures indicate the volume of unemployment in the Borough during 1956 :—

Details of the work of disinfection and disinfestation carried out during the year are as under :—

Continued from previous page...

Details of specimens, etc., sent to these laboratories are as under :—

Details of the Homes registered are :—

The undermentioned report has been received from the Chief Officer of the Welfare Department, London County Council

During the year 1956 demands for the service continued to be heavy and the following cases received assistance :—

The following are the aggregate totals under the respective headings :—

Notices issued :—

Average results of the Chemical and Bacteriological examination of the water supplied to Bromley during the year 1956. Milligrammes per litre (unless otherwise stated).

Bacteriological Results

TEMPORARY HOUSING:

Two hundred and forty-four shops and food premises have been registered under the above Act, as follow :—

BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS. Milk.

Ice Cream.

The following tabulation shows the results obtained in respect of the 1,027 samples examined from 1st May, 1947 to 31st December, 1956 :—

Carcases Inspected and Condemned.

The following are details of the recordings in the register for the year ended 31st December, 1956.

New cases and Mortality, 1956:—

New cases attending the Chest Clinic for the first time during 1956:—

New Contacts examined durine 1956:—

TABLE I. Summary of Statistics, 1956.

Notifications of Infectious Diseases:

TABLE II. Vital Statistics of the Borough for the Past Ten Years.

TABLE III. Causes of Death.

TABLE IV. Infant Mortality, 1956. (Compiled locally from Registrar's Death Returns)

TABLE V. Analysis of Causes of Infant Deaths. 1947-1956.

TABLE VI, Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1956—Ward Distribution, Attack and Mortality Rates.

TABLE VII. Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1956—Seasonal Incidence.

TABLE VIII. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. The Borough Engineer has kindly furnished the following information from the records at the Climatological Station, Church House Gardens:—

Commons, Public Recreation Grounds and Gardens. Six hundred and three acres of land have been secured or reserved for public recreational purposes, representing 9.2 per cent. of the total acreage of the Borough.

FACTORIES ACTS, 1937 AND 1948. The following is a copy of the return supplied to the Ministry of Labour and National Service in respect of the year 1956:— I. Inspections for purposes of provisions as to health.

II. Cases in which Defects were found.

TABLE XI. PREVENTION OF DAMAGE BY PESTS ACT, 1949.

TABLE XII. FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1955. Food Sampling.

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TABLE XIII. Summary of the work of the Public Health Inspectors for the year 1956.

TABLE XIII. (Continued)

TABLE XIII. (Continued)

TABLE XIV. Nuisances, Defects, Contraventions, etc., Abated or Remedied in 1956.

TABLE XIV. (Continued)

TABLE XIV. (Continued)

SCHOOL ROLLS, FURTHER EDUCATION AND CLINICS

The following table gives details of the incidence and number of cases of the various diseases notified :—

TABLE I. Medical Inspection of Pupils Attending Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools. A. Periodic Medical Inspections. Age Groups inspected and number of pupils examined: —

C. Pupils Found to Require Treatment. Number of Individual Pupils found at Periodic Medical Inspections to require treatment (excluding Dental Diseases and Infestation with Vermin).

D. Classification of the Physical Condition of Pupils Inspected.

TABLE II. Infestation with Vermin.

TABLE III. Return of Defects Found by Medical Inspection in the year 1956. A. Periodic Inspections.

TABLE III. (Continued) B. Spccial Inspections.

Tonsillectomy. Children attending maintained schools who have at some time or other undergone tonsillectomy: —

TABLE IV. Group I.—Eye Diseases, Defective Vision and Squint.

Group II.—Diseases and Defects of Ear, Nose and Throat.

Group IV.—Diseases of the Skin (excluding uncleanliness for which see Table II).

Group V. —Child Guidance Treatment.

TABLE V. Dental Inspection and Treatment Carried Out by the Authority.

TABLE VI. Orthoptic Clinic.

TABLE VII. Handicapped Pupils Requiring Education at Special Schools Approved Under Section 9(5) of the Education Act, 1944 or Hoarding in Boarding Homes.

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TABLE VIII. Independent Schools.

Table of Defects found by Medical Inspection.

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY. During the year 55 children and young persons appeared before the Local Court. The types of offences were:—