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The percentage of deaths under 1 year of age to the total
deaths was 2.3 per cent.; deaths under 15 years, 0.4 per cent.;
deaths under 65 years, 24.3 per cent.; and deaths over 65 years,
73.0 per cent. The corresponding figures for 1957 were 2.1 per
cent., 3.1 per cent., 28.1 per cent., and 71.9 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.
Principal Causes of Death in order of frequency (RegistrarGeneral*
s Return)
Rate per
1,000
Population
(l) All Ages
Deaths from diseases of Cardiac and
Circulatory System 4.34
" " Cancer 2.25
" " Vascular lesions of the Nervous System 1.86
" " diseases of Digestive System *0.14
" " diseases of the Respiratory System
(excluding Tuberculosis) 1.56
" Suicide and Violent Causes 0.35
" " Tuberculosis (all forms) 0.08
*ulcers of stomach, duodenum;
gastritis and enteritis.
Maternal Mortality
There were 4 deaths, compared with 3 in 1957. The maternal
mortality rate calculated per 1,000 total births was 1.02. The
rate for England and Wales was 0.43 in 1958.