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The Death Rate for the year was equal to 7.9 per thousand of
population, as compared with 7.6, 7.1 and 8.5 in the preceding three years.
A slight modification is, however, necessary if the number is to be compared
with that of England and Wales, the age and sex distribution
being not quite typical of the country as a whole. The corrected crude
Death Rate for 1935 thus becomes 7.7 per thousand of population.
The Death Rates for England and Wales were 11.7 in 1935, 11.8
in 1934, 12.3 in 1933 and 12.0 in 1932.
In considering the last 20 years there has been a tendency for the
Death Rate to decline, as in the Country as a whole, the averages for
the four quinquennial periods being 8.5, 7.4, 7.0 and 7.4. During the
past five years there has been a slight rise, probably due to the population
of this District being more elderly.
Of the 388 Deaths which occurred in Coulsdon and Purley in 1935,
54 per cent, were in persons over 65 years of age. This is about the same
percentage as in the last two years, and compares favourably with the
average of 45 per cent, for the five years 1926-30.
The principal causes of Death, with the rates per cent, of total
deaths, are shown in the following Table.

It will be seen that the chief causes of death in the District were
Heart and other circulatory diseases (including Cerebral Haemorrhage)
130 and Cancer 62, followed by Violence (including Suicide) 22,
Pulmonary Tuberculosis 19, Pneumonia (all forms) 15, Influenza 14,
and Nephritis 12.
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