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Comparisons with 1952 (Registrar-General's Table).
There were no deaths from Whooping Cough (1952-3) and
two from Measles (1952—nil). There were again no deaths in the
Typhoid group and none from Diphtheria.
The deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis numbered 30
(1952—56); those from Cancer decreased by 27; those from
Pneumonia increased by 22; and an increase of 4 was also
recorded in those caused by Bronchitis. There were 79 deaths
from Influenza (1952—9).
Deaths from suicide show an increase of 2, and motor vehicle
accidents of 5.
The total number of deaths was 2,905 as compared with 2,986
in 1952.
The percentage of deaths under 1 year of age to the total
deaths was 2.4 per cent.; deaths under 15 years, 3.4 per cent.;
deaths under 65 years, 29.2 per cent.; and deaths over 65 years,
70.8 per cent. Th corresponding figures for 1952 were 2.3 per
cent., 3.4 per cent., 29.6 per cent., and 70.4 per cent. respectively.
The Registrar-General has continued to supply a comparability
factor—0.90—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
540 as compared with 567 in 1952; 479 in 1951; 501 in 1950; 481
in 1949; 510 in 1948; 492 in 1947; 451 in 1946; 470 in 1945; 420
in 1944 and 456 in 1943.
Death-rate per 1,000 of the population for the last 11 years
are as follows:—
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)
1951—1.91 (479)
1952—2.26 (567)
1953—2.16 (540)