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Croydon 1931

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death certificate. For example, in the abbreviated table of the
Registrar-General there are 700 deaths from Heart Disease, whilst
Table VII. gives only 490. There are, however, given in the latter
table 118 deaths from Senile Decay as against 28 in the RegistrarGeneral's
table, and 92 more deaths from Bronchitis. A number
of certificates state the deceased died from Myocarditis and Senility,
or Myocarditis and Chronic Bronchitis; in the local classification
the latter cause has been taken as the cause of death.
The percentage of deaths under 1 year of age to total deaths
was 7.3. Deaths under 15 years, 11.1%; deaths under 65 years,
49.7%; deaths over 65 years, 50.3%.

Table: Table XI.CLASSIFICATION OF DEATHS ACCORDING TO DISEASE OVERA PERIOD OF 12 YEARS

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Table XI.

CLASSIFICATION OF DEATHS ACCORDING TO DISEASE OVER

A PERIOD OF 12 YEARS

Cause of Death.	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931
Cause of Death.	Total Deaths	Total Deaths	Total Deaths.	Total Deaths.	Total Deaths.	Total Deaths.	Total Deaths	Total Deaths.	Total Deaths.	Total Deaths	Total Deaths	Death Rate.	Total Deaths.
Enteric Fever	4	1	1	...	2	...	1	2	...	1	...	...	...
Malaria	...	...	1	...	...	1	1	...	...	...	...	...	...
Small Pox	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Measles	22	6	19	9	4	7	13	6	30	1	22	...	...
Scarlet Fever	7	4	6	2	2	1	...	3	5	4	2	3	0.013
Whooping Cough	2	22	11	11	11	9	9	21	14	24	3	9	0.038
Diphtheria and Croup	26	23	27	21	8	8	32	10	32	23	14	5	0.021
Influenza (including Influenzal pneumonia)	43	39	101	20	89	63	44	118	38	199	32	84	0.359
Dysentery	2	1	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	1	1	0.004
Erysipelas	3	4	2	2	4	5	5	5	3	8	7	4	0.016
Cerebro-Spinal Fever	...	...	2	...	2	...	...	...	2	...	2	3	0.013
Pulmonary Tuberculosis	156	156	183	153	157	151	171	165	167	170	154	155	0.663
Tuberculous Meningitis	16	12	14	22	12	17	17	10	13	10	7	11	0.470
Other Tuberculous Disease	23	16	12	15	19	13	20	28	26	19	14	11	0.470
Cancer, Malignant Disease	218	218	252	259	293	319	330	344	327	330	339	342	1.463
Rheumatic Fever	5	12	7	5	9	8	11	6	6	5	4	7	0.030
Meningitis	13	11	12	8	6	6	2	9	11	17	14	15	0.064
Organic Heart Disease	258	229	324	254	305	273	281	346	405	308	375	490	2.058
Bronchitis	163	143	194	139	142	130	100	92	92	226	125	200	0.855
Pneumonia*	160	138	183	144	182	140	138	200	158	272	199	258	1.104
Other Diseases of the Respiratory Organs	40	34	40	36	33	32	34	33	.33	21	16	10	0.086
Diarrhœa and Enteritis	40	62	37	36	32	36	34	24	28	45	32	15	0.064
Appendicitis and Typhlitis	14	9	15	21	28	20	14	17	16	27	23	23	0.098
Cirrhosis of Liver	10	10	14	11	7	12	3	9	11	10	5	5	0.021
Alcoholism	2	2	1	3	3	1	2	3	3	4	3	1	0.004
Nephritis and Bright's Disease	55	59	47	59	70	65	81	77	79	117	45	60	0.257
Puerperal Fever	6	4	6	4	2	5	11	4	2	6	1	8	0.034
Other Diseases and Accidents of Pregnancy & Parturition	12	10	10	6	8	8	13	5	11	5	6	14	0.060
Congenital Debility and Malformation	62	48	52	32	37	36	52	30	26	42	42	49	0.209
Premature Birth	61	47	38	39	54	42	40	48	32	47	40	49	0.209
Violent deaths (excluding Suicide)	33	26	48	49	66	65	71	83	75	64	74	92	0.393
Suicide	17	30	19	23	23	23	33	30	35	29	19	33	0.141
Other Defined Diseases	642	665	687	624	670	672	703	720	664	748	713	706	3.020
Diseases Ill-defined or unknown	19	13	22	...	...	1	3	4	10	10	4	1	0.004
Total	2134	2054	2387	2007	2280	2169	2269	2452	2354	2792	2337	2674	11.4

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Table: Table XI.CLASSIFICATION OF DEATHS ACCORDING TO DISEASE OVERA PERIOD OF 12 YEARS