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There have been no material changes in death rates or in the order of causes of death
from that of 1952 except that violence has displaced digestive diseases in sixth place and
nephritis, hyperplasia of the prostate in tenth place.
Infectious diseases
The attack rates and death rates of the principal infectious diseases in London are
shown in Tables 2, 3 and 14 (pp. 145, 146 and 155) : Table 2 shows both types of rates
for the constituent Metropolitan Borough Councils in 1953 ; Table 3, death rates since
1896 for the County as a whole ; and Table 14, attack rates for the County since 1933. In
order to preserve uniformity with national statistics the notification figures used in this
section of the report have been corrected as far as possible to take account of changes
of diagnosis made after the original notifications had been received (see footnote to
Table 14). Table 15 (page 156) shows, in age groups, the distribution over the weeks of
the year of the notifications of the following—dysentery, measles, meningococcal
infection, pneumonia, poliomyelitis, scarlet fever and whooping cough. It should be
noted that the totals in this Table, being for 52 weekly periods and not adjusted for
final late corrections of diagnosis, will not correspond with the yearly corrected totals
in Table 14.
DIPHTHERIA — AGE INCIDENCE
NOTIFICATIONS PER 1,000 LIVING IN AGE GROUPS