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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
Bexley 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley]
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The rate for Bexley again compares favourably with
other parts of the Country, the death rate over England
and Wales being 12.4.
The low rate in this area is expected in view of the
young population.
The Registrar General has supplied a comparability
factor for the area by which the death rate of the area
should be multiplied in order to make it comparable with
other parts of the Country. The figure is 1.07 and when
applied gives a standardised death rate of 9.3-3.
The figure 1.07 is the same as that supplied in each
year since 1931, and is obtained from facts revealed by
the Census. Its applicability to the present population,
which has changed so much in age groups, is therefore
doubtful, but is used as the only factor available.
CAUSES OF DEATH IN THE BOROUGH REGISTERED DURING THE YEAR 1937.
| Causes of death. | M. | F. |
| All Causes | 353 | 290 |
| 1 Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers | — | — |
| 2 Measles | — | — |
| 3 Scarlet Fever | 2 | — |
| 4 Whooping Cough | 1 | 2 |
| 5 Diphtheria | 1 | 2 |
| 0 Influenza | 12 | 6 |
| 7 Encephalitis lethargica | — | — |
| 8 Cerebro spinal Fever | — | — |
| 9 Tuberculosis of respiratory system ... | 13 | 11 |
| 10 Other tuberculous diseases | 5 | 3 |
| 11 Syphilis | 1 | 1 |
| 12 General paralysis of the insane, tabes dorsalis | 2 | 1 |
| 13 Cancer, malignant disease | 40 | 44 |
| 14 Diabetes | 4 | 4 |
| 15 Cerebral hemorrhage, etc. | 16 | 19 |
| 16 Heart disease | 73 | 81 |