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Comparisons with 1951 (Registrar-General's Table).
There were again three deaths from Whooping Cough and
none from Measles (1951—2). There were again no deaths in the
Typhoid group and none from Diphtheria.
The deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis increased by 4;
those from Cancer increased by 88; those from Pneumonia
increased by 4; and an increase of 20 was also recorded in those
caused by Bronchitis.
Deaths from suicide show a decrease of 6, and motor vehicle
accidents remain at 13.
The total number of deaths was 2,986 as compared with 2,975
in 1951.
The percentage of deaths under 1 year of age to the total
deaths was 2.3 per cent.; deaths under 15 years, 3.4 per cent.;
deaths under 65 years, 29.6 per cent.; and deaths over 65 years,
70.4 per cent. The corresponding figures for 1951 were 2.3 per
cent., 3.7 per cent., 29.9 per cent., and 70.1 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
567 as compared with 479 in 1951; 501 in 1950; 481 in 1949; 510
in 1948; 492 in 1947; 451 in 1946; 470 in 1945; 420 in 1944; 456
in 1943 and 405 in 1942.
Death-rate per 1,000 of the population for the last 11 years
are as follows:—
1942—2.07 (405) 1946—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) 1952—2.26 (567)
1945—2.34 (470) 1949—1.93 (481)