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Lewisham 1952

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

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Local sickness
Through the courtesy of the Regional Medical Officer of the
Ministry of National Insurance, I am sent weekly a return indicating for
the various areas of London the first certificates of sickness benefit
received at the local offices. These give some indication of the amount
of sickness in the borough, but the figures as shown in the table below
must be read with certain explanations:—
(1) The areas for Ministry of National Insurance statistics are
in the main coterminous with postal areas of London and not
with borough boundaries.
(2) The Kidbrooke office was closed after the week ended
October 21 and the area covered by that office incorporated
in the Eltham office. It would be pointless to give figures
for Eltham for the remainder of the year as there would be
no comparison with the figures already given.

Table 5

Average of four weeks endingLewishamDownhamKidbrookeNorwood
January 29660183315337
February 26614174293316
March 25518148269290
April 22487124249230
May 20425110198216
June 1732383148162
July 1531786147143
August 1227364131142
September 929280139142
October 7460124209223
November 4483127256243
December 2486134_255
December 30467120240
Corresponding figure for November, 1951470120230240

Social class in relation to cause of death

Of the 2,577 deaths analysed by us the social categories were as follow : — Table6

Social class1IIIIIIVVTotalNo information
Males34223743215126134117
Females2526664815474116752
Total594891491369200250869
Percentage21956158100-