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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
Richmond upon Thames 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]
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The number of deaths which occurred in Institutions in the
Borough was 370, and the number of inquests held was 77, though
all of these were not concerned with Richmond residents.
The crude death rate is therefore 13.02 per 1,000 of the
population, as compared with 12.3 in England and Wales and 12.2
in London.
The total number of deaths received weekly from the local
Registrar does not always tally with the number received at the
end of the year from the Registrar-General. This is due to the
fact that the statistical year of the Registrar-General may not
begin at the first day of the week. The number of deaths, therefore,
in the following table, is as near to the Registrar-General's
figure as I am able to make it.
The deaths occurred in persons of the following ages:—
| 16 under | 1 year of age. | |||
| 5 between | 1 and 5 years of age. | |||
| 16 | 5 ,, 15 ,, | |||
| 19 | 15 „ 25 ,, | |||
| 43 | 25 „ 45 ,, | |||
| 122 | 45 „ 65 „ | |||
| 186 | 65 „ 80 ,, | |||
| 84 over | 80 years of age. | |||
It will be noticed that no fewer than 270 persons died over
the age of 65, i.e., more than half the total deaths, while 84 were
deaths of people over 80 years of age.