[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough] page 43

Greenwich 1964

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]

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Table: Greenwich deaths from tuberculosis for the previous ten years are given, with their appropriate rates, in the following table:

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Greenwich deaths from tuberculosis for the previous ten years are given, with their appropriate rates, in the following table:

Year	No. of Deaths	Rate
1954	15	0.16
1955	8	0.08
1956	13	0.14
1957	8	0.09
1958	7	0.07
1959	14	0.15
1960	4	0.04
1961	7	0.08
1962	6	0.07
1963	10	0.11
10-year average	9	0.10
1964	4	0.05

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Tuberculosis of the Respiratory System was responsible for
3 of the deaths in this category, only one death being attributed
to the remaining forms of tuberculosis.
At 0.05, the Pulmonary Tuberculosis rate was 0.06 lower
than that returned for last year.
During the first full year as a Metropolitan Borough, Greenwich
recorded 175 deaths from tuberculosis, of which 115 were of
the pulmonary type.
Cancer.—In Greenwich, cancer was responsible for a total of
229 deaths giving a rate of 2.74 per thousand population compared
with figures of 187 and 2.24 respectively for the previous
year. It accounted for approximately 25% of all registered deaths,
a percentage six times that returned for 1901, viz. 4.2%, and
indicates that approximately one in every four deaths resulted
from cancer of one form or another. The present total of 229
is some 23% higher than the average for the past ten years, viz. 186.

Table: Comparing the current year's figures with those of the previous 5 years, the sites of the affected parts were:—

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Comparing the current year's figures with those of the previous 5 years, the sites of the affected parts were:—

	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964
Cancer of Stomach	26	26	26	30	36	29
„ „ Lung, Bronchus	50	63	48	60	56	61
„ „ Breast	14	15	17	22	16	24
„ „ Uterus	2	11	7	5	5	12
„ „ all Other Sites	80	94	105	89	74	103
Totals	172	209	203	206	187	229

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Greenwich 1964

Table: Greenwich deaths from tuberculosis for the previous ten years are given, with their appropriate rates, in the following table:

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Table: Comparing the current year's figures with those of the previous 5 years, the sites of the affected parts were:—