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Comparisons with 1954 (Registrar-General's Table)
There was one death from Whooping Cough (none in 1954) and
one from Measles (none in 1954). There were again no deaths in
the Typhoid group and none from Diphtheria.
The deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis numbered 35 (1954
28); those from Cancer increased by 56; those from Pneumonia increased
by 32; and an increase of 29 was also recorded in those
caused by Bronchitis. There were 21 deaths from Influenza (1954 -
6).
Deaths from suicide show an increase of 3, and motor vehicle
accidents totalled 26 as in 1954.
The total number of deaths was 2,835 as compared with 2,638
in 1954.
The percentage of deaths under 1 year of age to the total
deaths was 2.4 per cent.; deaths under 15 years, 3.2 per cent.;
deaths under 65 years, 28.1 per cent.; and deaths over 65 years,
71.9 per cent. The corresponding figures for 1954 were 2.6 per
cent., 3.5 per cent., 28.6 per cent., and 71.4 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 549
as compared with 486 in 1954; 540 in 1953; 567 in 1952; 479 in
1951; 501 in 1950; 481 in 1949; 510 in 1948; 492 in 1947; 451 in
1946 and 470 in 1945.