Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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All the Clinics have continued throughout the year, and the Tonsils and Adenoids Clinic at the Croydon General Hospital, which wan discontinued on the outbreak of war, reopened in November 1939: It Was closed again in August 1940.
WARDS | Estimated Population | Births | Deaths | Birth Rate | Death Rate | Deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births. | Death Rate from six Zymotic Diseases (excluding Diarrhoea) | Death Rate from Diarrhoea | Death Rate from Bronchitis and Pneumonia | Death Rate from Pulmonary Tuberclosis | Death Rate from Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis | Death Rate from Heart and Circulation Diseases | Death Rate from Nervous Diseases | Death Rate from Cancer | Natural increase or decrease of population. |
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Upper Norwood | 1-3,697 | 139 | 231 | 10.1 | 16.9 | 50 | - | 0.15 | 1.46 | 0.73 | 0.22 | 4.89 | 0.22 | 1.75 | -92 |
Norbury | I3,257 | 76 | l68 | 5.7 | 12.7 | 53 | - | - | 1.28 | 0.45 | - | 3.02 | 0.53 | 2.11 | 92 |
West Thornton | 15,968 | 194 | 204 | 12.2 | 12.8 | 46 | - | - | l.44 | 0.38 | 0.13 | 3.69 | 0.69 | 2.57 | -10 |
Bensham Manor | 13,659 | 187 | 238 | 13.7 | 17.4 | 48 | - | 0.29 | 2.43 | 0.44 | - | 6.57 | 0.51 | 2.34 | - 5l |
Thornton Heath | 4,778 | 216 | 22C | l4.6 | 14.9 | 42 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 1.69 | 0.95 | 0.20 | 4.47 | 0.61 | 1.76 | |
South Norwood | 14,467 | 211 | 223 | 14.6 | 15-4 | 38 | - | 0.07 | 1.66 | 0.28 | 0.l4 | 4.49 | 0.62 | 2.63 | - 12 |
Woodside | 13,274 | 174 | 24l | 13.1 | 18.2 | 40 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 2.18 | 0.83 | 0.08 | 5.35 | 0.60 | 1.81 | - 67 |
East | 13,310 | 158 | 207 | 11.9 | 13 | - | 0.08 | 1.20 | 0.53 | 0.08 | 4.88 | 0.68 | 3.08 | - 49 | |
Addiseombe | 13,452 | 201 | 220 | 14.9 | l6.4 | 45 | - | - | 1.78 | 0.74 | - | 5.20 | o.74 | 2.08 | - 19 |
Whitehorse Manor | 13,768 | 235 | 251 | 17.1 | 18.2 | 43 | - | 0.29 | 2.11 | 0.65 | 0.07 | 6.32 | 0.87 | 2.47 | - l6 |
Broad Green | l4, l44 | 198 | 218 | 14.0 | 15.4 | 45 | 0.07 | 0.21 | l.9l | 0.85 | 0.07 | 3.96 | 0.99 | 2.l9 | - 20 |
Central | 10,279 | 88 | 190 | 8.6 | 18.5 | 57 | 0.10 | - | 1.65 | 0.78 | 0.29 | 7.00 | 0.78 | 2.43 | -102 |
Waddon | 14,966 | 286 | 188 | 19.1 | 12.6 | 27 | - | - | 0.87 | 1.00 | 0.07 | 4.21 | 0.53 | 1.47 | + 98 |
South | 12,528 | 148 | 216 | 11.8 | 17.2 | 74 | 0.16 | - | 2.24 | 0.56 | 0.24 | 5.35 | 0.72 | 2,55 | - 68 |
Addington | 8,211 | 222 | 95 | 27.0 | 11.6 | 54 | - | 0.12 | 1.10 | 0.37 | - | 2.80 | 0.24 | 2.07 | -l27 |
The Borough | 199,800 | 3070 | 3118 | 15.4 | 15.6 | 39 | 0.03 | 0.09 | 1.69 | 0.75 | 0.11 | 4.31 | 0.63 | 2.22 | -377 |