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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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Certain statistics have therefore been extracted from the last table
and grouped in this way. They are shown in the following table which
also includes the percentage of each social class for each disease or
group of diseases. The percentages should be compared with those in
table 5 for all deaths, but for certain groups it will be realised that
the numbers are too small for comparison year by year.
Table 7
Grouped deaths in social class
| Male | Female | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | II | III | IV | V | Total | I | II | III | IV | V | Total | |||
| 1, 2 | TB | No. | — | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 6 |
| % | — | 7 | 50 | 14 | 29 | 100 | 17 | 50 | 33 | — | — | 100 | ||
| 10-15 | Cancers | No. | 8 | 45 | 183 | 41 | 23 | 300 | 5 | 40 | 121 | 24 | 23 | 213 |
| % | 3 | 15 | 60 | 14 | 8 | 100 | 2 | 19 | 57 | II | II | 100 | ||
| 17-21 | Heart and circulation | No. | 20 | 90 | 325 | 62 | 60 | 557 | 20 | 121 | 331 | 101 | 53 | 626 |
| % | 4 | 16 | 58 | 11 | 11 | 100 | 3 | 19 | 54 | 16 | 8 | 100 | ||
| 22-25 | Lung, non-TB | No. | 6 | 25 | 132 | 27 | 26 | 216 | 1 | 24 | 62 | 26 | 12 | 125 |
| % | 3 | 12 | 61 | 12 | 12 | 100 | 1 | 20 | 49 | 20 | 10 | 100 | ||
| 33,34 | Accidents | No. | - | 2 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 27 | - | 3 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 17 |
| % | — | 7 | 63 | 15 | 15 | 100 | — | 18 | 58 | 18 | 6 | 100 | ||
| 35 | Suicide | No. | - | 1 | 7 | - | 2 | 10 | - | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | 9 |
| % | — | 10 | 70 | — | 20 | 100 | — | 45 | 33 | 22 | — | 100 | ||
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. Table 8
| Social classification | Total | Not classifiable | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | II | III | IV | V | ||||
| Registered births | No. | 91 | 568 | 1808 | 395 | 231 | 3093 | 28 |
| % | 3 | 18 | 59 | 13 | 7 | 100 | ||
| Registered stillbirths | No. | - | 10 | 31 | 7 | 2 | 50 | 5 |
| % | — | 20 | 62 | 14 | 4 | 100 | ||
| Registered infant deaths | No. | — | 10 | 39 | 3 | 2 | 54 | - |
| % | — | 19 | 71 | 6 | 4 | 100 | ||
| Notified premature births | No. | 6 | 31 | 126 | 22 | 14 | 199 | 12 |
| % | 3 | 16 | 63 | 11 | 7 | 100 | ||