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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
Croydon 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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1941 showed a decrease in the general death rate- and the birth rate.
| WARDS | Estimated Population | Births | Deaths | Birth Rate | Death Rate | Deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births | Death Hate from six Zymotic Diseases (excludj.ng Diarrhoea) | Death Rate from Diarrhoea. | Death Rate from Bronchitis and Pneumoni a | Death Rate from Pulmonary Tuberculosis | Death Rate from Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis | Be ath Rate from HEART ' Circulation Diseases. | Deathh Pate from Nervous Diseases I | Death Rate from Cancer. | Natural increase or decrease of population. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Norwood | 12,677 | 97 | 178 | 7.6 | 14.4 | 52 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 1.42 | 0.32 | - | 4.54 | 0.32 | 2.45 | - 81 |
| Norbifry | 12 237 | 89 | 157 | 7.3 | 12.8 | 34 | 0 .68 | - | 1.23 | 0.57 | 0.03 | 4 .82 | 0.25 | 1.96 | - 68 |
| West Thornton | 14,948 | 151 | 183 | 10.1 | 12.2 | 40 | 0.13 | - | 1.40 | 0.47 | 0.13 | 4 .35 | 0.47 | 1.74 | - 32 |
| Bensham Manor | 12,679 | 167 | 188 | 13.2 | 14.8 | 47 | - | 0.03 | 1.26 | 0.47 | 0,16 | 5,21 | 0.63 | 2.76 | - 21 |
| Thornton Health | 15,758 | 162 | 158 | 11.8 | 11.5 | 43 | 0.15 | 0.07 | 1.09 | 0.29 | - | 4,22 | 0.36 | 2.18 | -4 |
| South Norwood | 13,447 | 175 | 2.16 | 13.0 | 16.1 | 46 | - | 0.15 | 2.60 | 0.45 | 0.15 | 6.10 | 0.52 | 2.53 | - 41 |
| Woodside | 12,254 | 133 | 160 | 10.9 | 13.1 | 23 | -- | - | 1.31 | 0.41 | 0.08 | 4.41 | 0.41 | 2.04 | - 27 |
| East | 12,290 | 112 | 138 | 9.1 | 11.2 | 18 | - | -- | 0.81 | 0.57 | - | 3.99 | 0.24 | 1.09 | - 26 |
| Addiscombe | 12,132 | 16 7 | 202 | 13.4 | 16.2 | 36 | 0.08 | - | 1.45 | 0.24 | 0.08 | 6,76 | 0.4-8 | 2.57 | -35 |
| Whitehorse Manor | 12,748 | 218 | 212 | 17.1 | 16.6 | 37 | 0.31 | 0.31 | 1.33 | 0.78 | 0.16 | 7.14 | 0.47 | 2.27 | + 6 |
| Broad Green | 13.124 | 175 | 18 5 | 14.1 | 40 | - | 0.08 | 2.67 | 0.69 | - | 5,03 | 0.31 | 1.90 | - 10 | |
| Central | 9.259 | 100 | 153 | 10.8 | 16.5 | 50 | 0.11 | - | 1.62 | 0.43 | 0.22 | 6.80 | 0.54 | 1.95 | - 53 |
| Waddon | 13.948 | 186 | 140 | 13.3 | 10.0 | 54 | 0.07 | - | 1.36 | 0.57 | 0.07 | 3.66 | 0.57 | 0.86 | +46 |
| South | 11,508 | 100 | 185 | !8.7 | 16.1 | 60 | - | 0.09 | 1.48 | 0.70 | 0.18 | 6.25 | 0.61 | 1.91 | - 85 |
| Addington | 7.191 | 149 | 73 | 20.7 | 10.2 | 47 | 0.28 | 0.14 | 0.83 | 0.28 | 0.42 | 3 .06 | 0. 56 | 1.11 | +76 |
| The Borough | 184, 500 | 2642 | 14.3 | 13.8 | 37 | 0.09 | !- | 1.49 | 0.49 | 0.10 | 5,12. | 0.44 | 2.04 | - 347 | |