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Croydon 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: TABLE IV.Causes Of, and ages at, death during year ending December 31st, 1923, excluding deaths of strangers at the Workhouse, Mayday Road Hospital, Borough Hospital, General Hospital, Purley War Memorial Hospital, Norwood Cottage Hospital, etc., and adding deaths of Croydon residents known to haveoccurred outside the district.

TABLE IV.

Causes Of, and ages at, death during year ending December 31st, 1923, excluding deaths of strangers at the Workhouse, Mayday Road Hospital, Borough Hospital, General Hospital, Purley War Memorial Hospital, Norwood Cottage Hospital, etc., and adding deaths of Croydon residents known to have

occurred outside the district.

No.CAUSELOCALITIES.Institution & Street Deaths which could not he distributed.Total Institution Deaths distributedInquest Cases.Total all Ages.Males all Ages.Females all Ages.0-1.1-2.2-5.505.15-25.25-ID.45-65.65 and upwards .
Up. Norwood.Norbury.W. Thornton.Bensham Mnr.Thornton Hth.8th. Norwood.Woodside.East.Addiacombe.Whitehor&e MnrBroad Green.Oentrjd.W addon.South.
MFMFMFMFMFMFMFMF
I. — General Diseases.
1Enteric Fever............................................................................................................
2Typhus............................................................................................................
3(A B.) Relapsing Fever
(A) Relapsing Fever............................................................................................................
(B) Mediterrranean Fever............................................................................................................
4Malaria............................................................................................................
5Small-pox
(A) Vaccinated............................................................................................................
( B) Not vaccinated............................................................................................................
(C) Doubtful............................................................................................................
6Measles......2..................33...1......1...95411311......2........................
7Scarlet Fever.................................1...1.........211.....................11.....................
8Whooping Cough1.........l......1...62............3...1165321221..............................
9(A) Diphtheria.........1164...4212...1...20 (3)121129............4376......1...............
(B C.) Croup
(B) Membranous laryngitis............................................................................................................
(C) Croup............................................................................................................
10Influenza162......2...121...221...1...20...13...1......1...............232128
11Miliary Fever............................................................................................................
1?Asiatic Cholera............................................................................................................
13Cholera Nostras............................................................................................................
14Dysenterv............................................................................................................
15Plague............................................................................................................
16Yellow Fever............................................................................................................
17Leprosy............................................................................................................
18Erysipelas1...1....................................2(1)...211.......................................11...