Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Coulsdon]
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These numbers include persons resident in Institutions in the District, the numbers of which at the end of 1951 were as follows:—
Netherne Hospital | 2,273 |
Russell Hill School | 235 |
Reedham Orphanage | 269 |
In 1951 there were 18,071 occupied houses, distributed as follows
Coulsdon East | 2,805 |
Coulsdon West | 3,140 |
Purley | 2,690 |
Woodcote | 1,650 |
Sanderstead | 4,701 |
Selsdon and Farleigh | 1,764 |
Kenley | 1,321 |
This suggests an average of 3.55 persons per occupied house
in 1951, or 3.25 if the institutional population is excluded. The
latter is comparable with 3.66 at the time of the 1931 Census, and
the former with an average of 4.3 per house in 1915.
VITAL STATISICS.
The following table gives the average population, birth, death, maternal and other important mortality rates for the quinquennial periods 1920-1949, together with the actual figures for 1950 and 1951.
Rates per 1,000 population. | 1920-1924. | 1925-1929. | 1930-1934. | 1935-1939. | 1940-1944. | 1945-1949. | 1950. | 1951. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Birth rate | 13.5 | 12.9 | 11.6 | 12.8 | 15.2 | 15.2 | 11.7 | 12.2 |
Percentage illegitimate | 3.4% | 3.7% | 2.8% | 3.4% | 3.9% | 3.4% | 2.9% | 3.1% |
Stillbirth rate | — | — | — | 0.43 | 0.48 | 0.40 | 0.20 | 0.36 |
Death rate | 7.4 | 7.0 | 7.4 | 8.3 | 11.4 | 9.7 | 9.5 | 11.5 |
Cancer death rate | 0.96 | 1.15 | 1.35 | 1.19 | 1.70 | 1.75 | 1.84 | 1.91 |
Tuberculosis death rate (per 100,000 population) | 57 | 36 | 38 | 35 | 48 | 36 | 26 | 33 |
Violence including Suicide | 0.44 | 0.35 | 0.32 | 0.46 | 0.82 | 0.37 | 0.37 | 0.45 |
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live and still births | 2.08 | 2.66 | 3.21 | 2.27 | 2.10 | 1.12 | 2.60 | Nil. |
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 re gist ered births) | 28 | 38 | 32 | 38 | 40 | 26 | 17 | 22 |
Neo-natal mortality rate | — | — | — | 26 | 28 | 19 | 11 | 18 |
Estimated population | 21,351 | 28,950 | 41,616 | 53,084 | 49,880 | 60,610 | 64,490 | 64,200 |