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Comparisons with 1950 (Registrar-General's Table).
There were three deaths from Whooping Cough (1950—2) and
two from Measles (1950—2). There were again no deaths in the
Typhoid group and none from Diphtheria.
The deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis decreased by 6;
those from Cancer decreased by 5; those from Pneumonia
increased by 29; and an increase of 74 was also recorded in those
caused by Bronchitis.
Deaths from suicide show an increase of 5, and motor vehicle
accidents a decrease of 4.
The total number of deaths was 2,975 as compared with 2,728
in 1950.
The percentage of deaths under 1 year of age to the total
deaths was 2.3 per cent.; deaths under 15 years, 3.7 per cent.;
deaths under 65 years, 29.9 percent; and deaths over 05 years,
70.1 percent. The corresponding figures for 1950 were 3.5 per
cent., 4.8 percent., 31.7 per cent., and 68.3 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
479 as compared with 501 in 1950; 481 in 1949; 510 in 1948; 492
in 1947; 451 in 1940; 470 in 1945; 420 in 1944; 450 in 1943; 405
in 1942 and 377 in 1941.
Death-rate per 1,000 of the population for the last 11 years
are as follows:—
1941—2.04 (377) 1945—2.34 (470) 1949—1.93 (481)
1942—2.07 (405) 1940—1.93 (451) 1950—1.99 (501)
1943—2.28 (456) 1947—2.03 (492) 1951—1.91 (479)
1944—2.21 (420) 1948—2.06 (510)