[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough] page 15

Lewisham 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]

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There are discrepancies between the above table and table 3, for
various reasons as given on page 16 of my annual report for 1950. For
comparative purposes therefore it is safer to group the causes of death
which are linked together. Thus code numbers 10 to 15 may be
regarded as all different kinds of cancer, while numbers 17 to 21 are all
diseases of the heart and circulation. Similarly 22 to 25 are best
grouped together.
Certain statistics have therefore been extracted from table 7, and
grouped in this way. They are shown in table 8, which also includes
the percentage of each social class for each disease or group of diseases.
The percentages should be compared with those shown in table 6
for all deaths.

Table: Table 8

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Table 8

			Male						Female
			1	II	III	IV	V	Total	1	II	III	IV	V	Total
1,2	TB	No.	1	3	20	6	3	33	1	-	8	1	1	11
1,2	TB	°/ /o	3	9	61	18	9	100	9	-	73	9	9	100
10-15	Cancers	No.	8	42	135	44	20	249	5	46	127	26	11	227
10-15	Cancers	%	3	17	54	18	8	100	2	20	62	11	5	100
17-21	Heart and circulation	No.	16	114	300	90	43	563	18	130	302	101	29	580
17-21	Heart and circulation	%	3	20	53	16	8	100	3	23	52	17	5	100
12-25	Lung, non-TB	No.	8	28	136	40	22	234	3	34	82	35	15	169
12-25	Lung, non-TB	%	3	12	58	18	9	100	2	20	48	21	9	100
33,34	Accidents	No.	-	6	13	9	1	29	1	2	9	4	-	16
33,34	Accidents	%	-	21	45	31	3	100	6	12	57	25	-	100
35	Suicide	No	-	5	6	3	3	17		1	7	3	-	11
35	Suicide	%	-	29	35	18	18	100	-	9	64	27	-	100

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Table: Table 8