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Comparisons with 1953 (Registrar-General's Table)
There were no deaths from Whooping Cough as in 1953 and none
from Measles (1953 - 2). There were again no deaths in the
Typhoid group and none from Diphtheria.
The deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis numbered 28 (1953 - 30);
those from Cancer decreased by 50; those from Pneumonia decreased
by 30; and a decrease of 83 was also recorded in those caused by
Bronchitis. There were only 6 deaths from Influenza (1953 - 79).
Deaths from suicide show a decrease of 3, and motor vehicle
accidents an increase of 8.
The total number of deaths was 2,638 as compared with 2,905
in 1953.
The percentage of deaths under 1 year of age to the total
deaths was 2.6 per cent.; deaths under 15 years, 3.5 per cent.;
deaths under 65 years, 28.6 per cent.; and deaths over 65 years,
71.4 per cent. The corresponding figures for 1953 were 2.4 per
cent., 3.4 per cent., 29.2 per cent., and 70. 8 per cent. respectively.
The Registrar-General has continued to supply a comparability
factor - 0.90 - by which the crude death-rate must be adjusted
for comparison with other areas of the country as a whole. It
will be observed that this factor is less than unity, so that
the standardised, or corrected death-rate, is less than the
crude death-rate. In other words, Croydon has a greater "weighting"
of elderly persons than the average for the country.
CANCER
Deaths from Cancer tabulated in the Department numbered 486
as compared with 540 in 1953; 567 in 1952; 479 in 1951; 501 in
1950; 481 in 1949; 510 in 1948; 492 in 1947; 451 in 1946; 470 in
1945 and 420 in 1944.