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DEATHS
Causes of Death in 1962
Total
Tuberculosis 13
Cancer and other Malignant Diseases 177
Diseases of the Brain and Nervous System 107
Diseases of the Heart and Circulatory System 280
Pneumonia, Bronchitis and other Respiratory Diseases
(excluding Tuberculosis) 106
Diseases of the Stomach and Digestive System 11
Infant Deaths and Congenital Malformations 43
Accidents, Poisonings and Violence 24
Other causes 61
Total 822
Crude Death Rate per 1,000 Estimated Population 7.1
Adjusted Death Rate (Comparability Factor 1.54)= 10.9
49 deaths of residents of Romford were due to Lung Cancer.
41 of these were male and 8 were female.
The deaths of 106 persons were ascribed to Bronchitis and
other allied respiratory diseases.
Accidents accounted for 24 deaths during the year, 14 males
and 10 females. This total, which includes the deaths of 9 male
and 3 females resulting from motor vehicle accidents, is the same
as for 1961.
One male and three females committed suicide, compared with
a total of thirteen in 1961.
LUNG CANCER
In reflecting on the deaths of 49 residents during the year
from Lung Cancer one may well ask should they have died?
Despite the fact that the great weight of medical and lay opinion
accepts as an established fact a causal connection between Smoking
and Lung Cancer, it is strange that the public have not yet modified
their smoking habits despite the knowledge that by continuing
to indulge they are not only jeopardising their own lives but may
implicate their families in the not unlikely event of premature
death.
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