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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
Orpington 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
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13
Deaths
565 deaths were allocated to the Urban District for
the year 1952, giving a Death rate of 8.9 per 1,000 total
population
Of the deaths occurring, 299 were males and 266
females.
Comparative death rates for the past ten years are
given below:-
Year
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
Orpington
11.2
11.4
10.1
9.3
8.6
8.4
10.7
10.6
10.4
8.9
England & Wales
12.1
11.6
11.4
11.5
12.0
10.8
11.8
11.7
12.5
11.3
An Analysis of the ages at death is given below:-
| AGE | TOTAL | |
|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | |
| Under 1 | 12 | 5 |
| 1 under 5 | 5 | 1 |
| 5 under 15 | — | 1 |
| I5 under 25 | 5 | 3 |
| 25 under 45 | 17 | 15 |
| 45 under 65 | 82 | 45 |
| 65 under 75 | 79 | 67 |
| 75 d over | 99 | 129 |
| 299 | 266 | |
| GRAND TOTAL | 565 | |
The main causes of death in Orpington, for the past five years, were as under:-
| DISEASE | YEAR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | |
| Cancer | 103 | 99 | 114 | 120 | 85 |
| Heart 4 Circulatory Diseases | 199 | 310 | 342 | 293 | 285 |
| Respiratory Diseases (not Tuberculosis | 39 | 63 | 66 | 76 | 77 |
| Tuberculosis | 18 | 18 | 11 | 19 | 11 |
| Infectious Diseases | 4 | 6 | 1 | — | 2 |