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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 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: Table IV.classification of deaths according to disease over a period of 10 years.

Table IV.

classification of deaths according to disease over a period of 10 years.

Cause of Death.1928192919301931193219331934193519361937Death Rate.
Total Deaths.Total Deaths.Total DeathsTotal Deaths.Total Deaths.Total Deaths.Total Deaths.Total Deaths.Total DeathsTotal Deaths.
Enteric Fever...1......2...1...4350.144
Malaria.................................
Small Pox.................................
Measles30122...21314...2150.021
Scarlet Fever5423......3...230.012
Whooping Cough14243912.31821550.021
Diphtheria and Croup3223145111724128150.069
Influenza (including Influenzal pneumonia)381993284100103282539710.293
Dysentery......11.....................
Erysipelas38743852630.012
Cerebro-Spinal Fever2...232233...30.012
Pulmonary Tuberculosis1671701541551441621441481321400.578
Tuberculous Meningitis13107119106919150.062
Other Tuberculous Disease261914111312714
Cancer, Malignant Disease3273303393423413743713214284321.783
Rheumatic Fever654744696110.045
Meningitis1117141597914440.017
Organic Heart Disease4053083754904696275917807497703.178
Bronchitis, Acute and Chronic92226125200145130934544500.206
Pneumonia1582721992582382101991201851790.739
Other Diseases of the Respiratory Organs332116201522242923120.050
Diarrhoea and Enteritis284532152526182931450.186
Appendicitis and Typhlitis162723232844234818230.095
Cirrhosis of Liver1110558652890.037
Alcoholism34311...52...10.004
Nephritis and Bright's Disease7911745608178756689840.347
Puerperal Fever26182757510.004
Other Diseases and Accidents of Pregnancy & Parturition11561455817110.045
Congenital Debility and Malformation2642424927193387631050.433
Premature Birth32474049484734
Violent deaths (excluding Suicide)7564749275709185851020.421
suicide352919334330372629300.124
Other Defined Diseases6647487137066846776885675706342.617
Diseases Ill-defined or unknown1010411083......20.009
Total235427922337267425562721257124532590280011.6

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1937 showed an increase in the general death-rate, a slight
increase in the birth-rate and a sharp rise in the infant mortality
rate, which rose to the highest figure since 1929.