Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]
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Column 1. | Column 2. | Column 3. | Column 4. | Column 5. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0/1 | 314 | 9.3 | 12.3 | 132 | |||
1/4 | 175 | 259 | 4.31 | 7.2 | 6.8 | 10.0 | 138 |
5/9 | 68 | 1.8 | 2.6 | ||||
10/14 | 16 | 1.1 | 0.6 | ||||
15/19 | 21 | 47 | 1.9 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 43 |
20/24 | 20 | 2 .3 | 1.0 | ||||
25/34 | 272 | 4.0 | 10.7 | 10.7 | — | ||
35/44 | 152 | 6.1 | |||||
45/49 | 48 | 4.4 | 1.8 | 41 | |||
Over 50 | 190 | 64. 1 | 7 .4 | - |
Column 2 is the sum total of deaths in the district occurring
in the three years in each age-group.
Column 8 is the average percentage of deaths occurring in
each group for the country.
Column 4 is Column 2 expressed as a percentage.
Column 5 shows the percentage ratio of Column 4 to Column 3.
The factors for the separate, age-groups are then : group 0/1,
1.3; group 1/14, 1.3; group 15/24, 0.4; group 15/44, unity;
group 45/49, 0.4, and group over 50, 0.1.
To assess the accuracy of these deductions, the population of
1927 is below constructed, using these factors for the separate agegroups.
In that year 10.7% of deaths in England and Wales
occurred in the age-group 25/44. In Dagenham, in this age-group,
there were 63 deaths. The total deaths occurring in this district
then, were the distribution of the population the same as that
occurring in the country as a whole, would be 588. The death-rate
in England and Wales in 1927 was 12.3 per 1,000 population.
deaths at this rate would occur in a population of 47,800.
In the following table, a total population of 47,990 is shown in
Column 2 distributed in the same proportion in age-groups as holds
for the entire population of the country.
Column 4 is obtained by the multiplication of these previous two figures :—
Column 1. | Column 2. | Column 3. | Column 4. |
---|---|---|---|
0/1 | 800 | 1.3 | 1,060 |
15/24 | 11,600 | 1.3 | 15,400 |
25/44 | 7,430 | 0.4 | 2,970 |
45/49 | 14,110 | 1.0 | 14,110 |
45/49 | 3,720 | 0.4 | 1,490 |
Over 50 | 10,330 | 0.1 | 1,030 |
36,060 |