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Comparisons with 1949 (Registrar-General's Table).
There were two deaths from Whooping Cough (1949—2) and
one from Measles (1949—1). There were again no deaths in the
Typhoid group and none from Diphtheria.
The deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis decreased by 30;
those from Cancer increased by 31; (hose from Pneumonia
decreased by 15; and a decrease of 18 was also recorded in those
caused by Bronchitis.
Deaths from suicide show a decrease of 5, and road traffic
accidents a similar figure.
The total number of deaths was 2,728 as compared with 2,731
in 1949.
The percentage of deaths under I year of age lo the total
deaths was 3.5 per cent.; deaths under 15 years, 4.8 per cent.;
deaths under 05 years, 31.7 per cent.; and deaths over 65 years,
68.3 per cent. The corresponding figures for 1949 were 4.2 per
cent., 5.6 per cent., 33.0 per cent., and 67.0 per cent. respectively.
The Registrar-General has continued to supply a comparability
factor—0.93—by which the crude death-rate must be
adjusted for comparison with other areas of the country as a
whole. It will be observed that this factor is less than unity,
so that the standardised, or corrected death-rate, is less than the
crude death-rate. In other words, Croydon has a greater "weighting"
of elderly persons than the average for the country.
CANCER.
Deaths from Cancer tabulated in the Department numbered
501 as compared with 481 in 1949; 510 in 1948; 492 in 1947; 451
in 1946; 470 in 1945; 420 in 1944; 456 in 1943; 405 in 1942; 377
in 1941; and 443 in 1940.
Death-rate per 1,000 of the population for the last 11 years
are as follows:—
1940—2.22 (443)
1941—2.04 (377)
1942—2.07 (405)
1943—2.28 (456)
1944 2.21 (420)
1945—2.34 (470)
1946—1.93 (451)
1947—2.03 (492)
1948—2.06 (510)
1949—1.93 (481)
1950—1.99 (501)