London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Lewisham 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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There are small discrepancies between the above table and table 2,
owing to different methods of assessment, and 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 6, and
grouped in this way. They are shown in table 7, 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 5
for all deaths.
| Male | Female | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | II | III | IV | V | Total | 1 | II | III | IV | V | Total | |||
| 1,2 | TB | No. | — | 1 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 25 | — | 1 | 6 | 2 | — | 9 |
| % | 4 | 52 | 24 | 20 | 100 | — | II | 67 | 22 | — | 100 | |||
| 10-15 | Cancers | No. | 6 | 48 | 142 | 36 | 10 | 242 | 3 | 39 | 108 | 30 | 11 | 191 |
| °/ 10 . | 2 | 20 | 59 | 15 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 20 | 56 | 16 | 6 | 100 | ||
| 17-21 | Heart and circulation | No. | 24 | 117 | 300 | 72 | 46 | 55) | 21 | 118 | 301 | 85 | 38 | 563 |
| 0/ /o | 4 | 21 | 54 | 13 | 8 | 100 | 4 | 21 | 53 | 15 | 7 | 100 | ||
| 22-25 | Lung, non-TB | No. | 5 | 20 | 87 | 28 | 19 | 159 | — | 15 | 51 | 14 | 7 | 87 |
| 0/ /o | 3 | 13 | 54 | 18 | 12 | 100 | — | 17 | 59 | 16 | 8 | 100 | ||
| 33,34 | Accidents | No. | — | 3 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 25 | — | 2 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 15 |
| °/ /o | — | '2 | 52 | 24 | 12 | 100 | — | 13 | 67 | 7 | 13 | 100 | ||
| 35 | Suicide | No. | — | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 14 | — | 1 | 3 | — | 1 | 5 |
| •/ /o | — | 14 | 65 | 14 | 7 | 100 | — | 20 | 60 | — | 20 | /00 | ||
Social class in relation to infant statistics
The following table shows the social classification in relation to
registered births, registered infant deaths, notified stillbirths and
notified premature births, an extra line being added to each group to
indicate the percentage. Apart from the registered births the figures
are too small to be significant; the percentages in the category of
registered births can be compared with those for the registered deaths
shown in table 5.