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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 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Registrar General's Table of Deaths according to Cause, Age and Sex (Cont)
| Sex | All Aces | 0- | 1-. | 2- | 5- | 15- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | 75- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senility | M | 19 | 4 | 15 | |||||||||
| F | 23 | 2 | 21 | ||||||||||
| Suicide | M | 13 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| F | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | - | 1 | |||||
| Other violence | 35 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||
| F | 42 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | — | 1 | 4 | 8 | 22 | |
| Other defined diseases | M | 105 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 29 | 28 |
| F | 97 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 17 | 24 | 22 | |||
| Causes ill-defined or unknown | M | ||||||||||||
| M | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| F | 2 | 2 |
Comparisons with 1938.
There was a fall in the deaths from the Zymotic
diseases excluding; Typhoid Fever and Diphtheria. In 1939 there
wore no deaths from Measles or Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough
caused 3 deaths and Diphtheria 16 deaths. The deaths from
Pulmonary Tuberculosis decreased by 28 in 1939. The number
of deaths attributed to Cancer totalled 419, compared with
387 in 1938. Deaths from Heart Disease increased by 5.
Pneumonia deaths showed an increase of 21 and those due to
Bronchitis a decrease of 2. Deaths from Digestive Diseases,
including Appendicitis increased by 26. Deaths from Suicide
and Violence decreased from 121 to 105.
The percentage of deaths under 1 year of ago
to the total deaths was 5,1%. Deaths under 15 years 10.0%;
deaths under 65 years, 42.6% deaths ovdr 65 years 57.4. The
corresponding figures for 1938 were 5.4% 8.5%, 45.0% and
55.0%.
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