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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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WARD STATISTICS
| 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 Tuberculosis. | Death Rate from Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Death Rate from Heart and Circulation Diseases. | Death Rate from Cancer. | Natural Increase or Decrease of Population. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Norwood | 16862 | 228 | 199 | 13.5 | 11.8 | 22 | 0.06 | - | 0.77 | 0.24 | 0.18 | 5.75 | 1.96 | + 29 |
| Norbury | 15761 | 161 | 210 | 10.2 | 13.3 | 31 | - | 0.06 | 1.52 | 0.19 | 0.12 | 4.06 | 2.47 | — 49 |
| West Thornton | 18840 | 221 | 199 | 11.7 | 10.6 | 18 | - | - | 0.85 | 0.21 | 0.05 | 4.62 | 1.59 | + 22 |
| Bensham Manor | 15751 | 208 | 221 | 13.2 | 14.0 | 15 | - | - | 1.21 | 0.19 | - | 6.66 | 2.98 | — 13 |
| Thornton Heath | 17728 | 253 | 225 | 14.3 | 12.7 | 24 | - | - | 1.47 | 0.34 | 0.06 | 5.06 | 2.09 | + 28 |
| South Norwood | 16863 | 282 | 211 | 16.7 | 12.5 | 21 | - | - | 0.90 | 0.18 | - | 4.90 | 1.60 | + 71 |
| Woodside | 15847 | 222 | 195 | 14.0 | 12.3 | 23 | - | 0.06 | 2.02 | 0.38 | - | 6.44 | 1.96 | + 27 |
| East and Shirley | 17983 | 329 | 275 | 18.3 | 15.3 | 9 | - | - | 1.28 | 0.28 | 0.17 | 5.12 | 2.11 | + 54 |
| Addiscombe | 15753 | 224 | 210 | 14.2 | 13.3 | 13 | - | - | 1.40 | 0.06 | - | 5.46 | 2.79 | + 14 |
| Whitehorse Manor | 15946 | 266 | 217 | 16.7 | 13.6 | 8 | - | - | 1.63 | 0.25 | 0.06 | 4.64 | 2.19 | + 49 |
| Broad Green | 16817 | 250 | 191 | 14.9 | 11.4 | 20 | 0.06 | - | 0.89 | 0.30 | 0.06 | 4.40 | 1.84 | + 59 |
| Central | 11870 | 182 | 168 | 15.3 | 14.2 | 22 | 0.08 | - | 1.18 | - | 0.08 | 7.16 | 2.36 | + 14 |
| Waddon | 17491 | 201 | 178 | 11.5 | 10.2 | 30 | 0.06 | - | 1.14 | 0.29 | 0.06 | 3.95 | 1.20 | + 23 |
| South | 14778 | 213 | 192 | 14.4 | 13.0 | 14 | - | - | 0.81 | 0.07 | - | 5.21 | 1.97 | + 21 |
| Addington | 22010 | 379 | 67 | 17.2 | 3.0 | 21 | 0.05 | - | 0.27 | - | 0.05 | 0.86 | 0.41 | + 312 |
| The Borough | 250300 | 3619* | 2975* | 14.5 | 11.9 | 19 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 1.23 | 0.20 | 0.05 | 4.93 | 1.91 | +644 |
* These are
the corrected totals.