[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Coulsdon] page 8

Coulsdon and Purley 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Coulsdon]

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In 1953 there were 18,340 occupied houses, distributed as
follows:—
Coulsdon East 2,901
Coulsdon West 3,096
Purley 2,570
Woodcote 1,719
Sanderstead North 2,262
Sanderstead South 2,483
Selsdon 1,881
Kenley 1,428
This suggests an average of 3.53 persons per occupied house
in 1953, 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 STATISTICS.

Table: 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 1952 and 1953.

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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 1952 and 1953.

Rates per 1,000 population.	1920-1924.	1925-1929.	1930-1934.	1935-1939.	1940-1944.	1945-1949.	1952.	1953.
Birth rate	13.5	12.9	11.6	12.8	15.2	15.2	11.7	11.6
Percentage illegitimate	3.4%	3.7%	2.8%	3.4%	3.9%	3.4%	1.9%	2.8%
Stillbirth rate	—	—	—	0.43	0.48	0.40	0.14	0.22
Death rate	7.4	7.0	7.4	8.3	11.4	9.7	10.2	15.3
Cancer death rate	0.96	1.15	1.35	1.19	1.70	1.75	1.78	2.39
Tuberculosis death rate (per 100,000 population)	57	36	38	35	48	36	22	29
Violence including Suicide	0.44	0.35	0.32	0.46	0.82	0.37	0.34	0.46
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live and still births	2.08	2.66	3.21	2.27	2.10	1.12	Nil.	1.31
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 re gistered births)	28	38	32	38	40	26	24	29
Neo-natal mortality rate	-	-	-	26	28	19	17	21
Estimated population	21,351	28,950	41,616	53,084	49,880	60,610	64,180	64,810

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Table: 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 1952 and 1953.