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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 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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WARD STATISTICS
| Estimated Population | Births | Birth Rate | Deaths | Death Rate | Deaths under 1 year | Deaths under 1 year per 1,000 Births | _ Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years | Death Rate from Diarrhoea (under 2 year | Deaths from Bronchitis and Pneumonia | Death Rata from Bronchitis and Pneuaonia | Deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis | Death Rate from Pulmonary Tuberculosis | Deaths from Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis | Death Rate from Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis | Deaths from Heart and Circulatory Disease | Death Rata from Heart and Circulatory Diseases | Deaths from Cancer | Death Rate from Cancer | Natural Incrsase of births over deaths. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Norwood | 17527 | 352 | 20.1 | 230 | 13.1 | 3 | 9 | - | - | 24 | 1.4 | 2 | 0.1 | - | - | 87 | 5.0 | 51 | 2.9 | +122 |
| Norbury | 16271 | 198 | 12.2 | 209 | 12.8 | 5 | 25 | - | - | 24 | 1.5 | 1 | 0.1 | - | - | 80 | 4.9 | 43 | 2.7 | -11 |
| West Thornton | 17026 | 247 | 14.5 | 185 | 10.9 | 4 | 18 | - | - | 14 | 0.8 | - | - | - | - | 67 | 3.9 | 33 | 1.9 | + 62 |
| Bensham Manor | 17038 | 212 | 12.4 | 222 | 13.0 | 6 | 28 | - | - | 26 | 1.5 | - | - | - | - | 77 | 4.5 | 50 | 2.9 | -10 |
| Thornton Heath | 16033 | 268 | 16.7 | 189 | 11.8 | 5 | 19 | - | - | 22 | 1.4 | 3 | 0.2 | - | - | 63 | 3.9 | 36 | 2.2 | + 79 |
| South Norwood | 16231 | 388 | 23.9 | 214 | 13.2 | 5 | 13 | - | - | 26 | 1.6 | 1 | 0.1 | - | - | 96 | 3.9 | 35 | 2.2 | + 174 |
| woodside | 14849 | 245 | 16.5 | 209 | 14.1 | 4 | 16 | - | - | 22 | 1.5 | 2 | 0.1 | - | - | 79 | 5.3 | 44 | 2.0 | + 36 |
| East | 17092 | 18 2 | 11.2 | 192 | 11. 2 | 2 | 10 | - | - | 18 | 1.1 | 1 | 0.1 | - | - | 71 | 4.1 | 48 | 2.8 | Nil |
| Shirley | 12990 | 175 | 13.5 | 113 | 8.7 | 4 | 23 | - | - | 14 | 1.1 | - | - | - | - | 42 | 3.2 | 19 | 1.5 | + 62 |
| Addiscombe | 15908 | 238 | 15.0 | 246 | 15.5 | 2 | 8 | - | - | 28 | 1.8 | 3 | 0.2 | - | - | 87 | 5.5 | 44 | 2.8 | -8 |
| Whitehorse Manor | 13535 | 230 | 17.0 | 195 | 14.4 | 3 | 13 | - | - | 31 | 2.3 | 1 | 0.1 | - | - | 70 | 5.2 | 45 | 3.3 | + 35 |
| Broad Green | 13593 | 222 | 16.3 | 160 | 11.8 | 2 | 9 | - | - | 27 | 2.0 | 2 | 0.2 | - | - | 46 | 3.4 | 39 | 2.9 | + 62 |
| central | 11002 | 176 | 16.0 | 137 | 12.4 | 3 | 17 | - | - | 14 | 1.3 | - | - | - | - | 50 | 4.5 | 24 | 1.2 | + 39 |
| waddon | 15642 | 241 | 15.4 | 186 | 11.9 | 4 | 17 | - | - | 18 | 1.2 | 3 | 0.2 | - | - | 63 | 4.0 | 42 | 2.7 | + 55 |
| South | 16644 | 260 | 15.6 | 283 | 17.0 | 4 | 15 | - | - | 21 | 1.3 | 1 | 0.1 | - | - | 120 | 7.2 | 29 | 1.7 | -23 |
| Addington | 21089 | 545 | 25.8 | 92 | 4.4 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 0.05 | 8 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.0 | - | - | 21 | 1.0 | 22 | 1.4 | + 453 |
| The Borough . | 252470 | 4189 | 16.6 | 3062 | 12.1 | 63 | 15 | 1 | 0.00 | 338 | 1.3 | 21 | 0. 1 | - | - | 1119 | 4. 4 | 604 | 2. 4 | +1127 |
| *Death Rate per 1.000 population and excluding those who died In (fceen's Hospital | ||||||||||||||||||||