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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Croydon 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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4.—Age and sex distribution of population:—
| 0—5 years. | 5—10 years. | Over 10 years. | All ages. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Fem | Total. | Male. | Fem. | Total. | Male | Fem. | Total | Male | Fem. | Total. | |
| Selected working class roads | 5.7 | 6.7 | 12.4 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 9.9 | 37.8 | 39.9 | 77'.7 | 18.5 | 51.5 | 100.0 |
| Rest of Borough | 3.7 | 3.6 | 7.3 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 9.0 | 38.0 | 45.7 | 83.7 | 46.2 | 58.8 | l00.0 |
5.—Proportion of private family population living under conditions
involving more than two persons per room:—
Whole Borough (1921 Census) 4.7 percent.
Selected roads 11.7 ,,
B.—Health.
The following particulars are based on the average of the data
for the two years 1923 and 1924 for the roads subjected to house-tohouse
inspection and for the rest of the borough. The population
for the "selected roads" is that ascertained during the inspection,
and is assumed to hold good for the two years in question; that
for the various age groups for the rest of the borough is calculated
from the two Censuses of 1911 and 1921, and is subject to certain
unavoidable errors. To minimise errors through differences in the
age distribution of the two groups, the death rates set out below are
calculated per 1,000 population of the age-groups under consideration.
| Selected working-class roads. | Rest of borough. | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.—Birth-rate | 25.2 | 16.9 |
| 2.—General Death-rate | 14.2 | 12.8 |
| 3.—Infant mortality | 78.9 | 51.2 |
| 4.—Death-rate, 0-5 years* | 22.8 | 16.4 |
| 5.—Death-rate, 5-10 years* | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| 6.—Death-rate, 10 years upwards* (*peh 1,000 population at these ages) | 14.2 | 11.2 |
| 16.7 | 13.3 | |
| Atrophy, debility, marasmus | 7.6 | 5.1 |
| Gastro-enteritis | 6.0 | 3.0 |
| Bronchitis and pneumonia | 30.3 | 8.7 |
| Measles and whooping cough | 4.5 | 0.6 |
| 2.1 | 0.9 | |
| Bronchitis and pneumonia | 8.6 | 3.0 |
| Data too small for analysis. | ||
| 21 | 1.6 | |
| 1.8 per 1000 males | 1.6 per 1000 males | |
| 2.5 per 1,000 females | 1.6 per 1000 females | |
| Organic heart disease | 1.4 | 1.6 |
| Diseases of arteries | 0.8 | 08 |
| Cerebral haemorrhage | 0.9 | 0.7 |
| Bronchitis | 1.1 | 0.8 |
| Broncho and lobar pneumonia | 1.2 | 0.6 |
| Tuberculosis | 2.0 | 0.9 |