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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
Brentford and Chiswick 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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Deaths and Death Rate
A slight rise in the death rate occurred in 1958, the figure for this year
being 11.22 as compared with 10.87 in 1957. The lowest death rate ever recorded
in the Borough was 10.16 in 1953.
| 1958 | 1957 | 1956 | 1955 | 1954 | 1953 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circulatory Disease | 222 | 215 | 224 | 206 | 205 | 173 |
| Heart Disease | 99 | 82 | 91 | 96 | 98 | 100 |
| Cancer | 127 | 131 | 150 | 136 | 159 | 119 |
| Death Rate of all infants per 1,000 live births | 17.50 | |||||
| Death Rate of all legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births | 14.75 | |||||
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | Nil | |||||
| Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) | Nil | |||||
| Deaths from Diarrhoea or Gastro-Enteritis (under 2 years) | 1 | |||||
| Deaths from Cancer (all ages) | 127 | |||||
| Deaths from Tuberculosis (all ages) | 7 | |||||
To make an approximate allowance for the way in which the sex and age distribution
of the local population differs from that of England and Wales as a
whole, the crude death rate is multiplied by a comparability factor supplied by
the Registrar-General. In 1958, this factor is 1.0 and so the corrected death
rate is the same as the crude death rate i.e. 11.22. The rate for the whole
of England and Wales is 11.7, slightly higher than that for this Borough.
Table I gives a list of Causes of Death as classified according to the
International system agreed by the World Health Organisation and in operation
since November, 1949.
The distribution of cancer deaths in sites and ages is shown below. Cancer
of the lung accounted for nearly half the male deaths.
| Male | Female | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 1957 | 1958 | 1957 | |
| Stomach | 10 | 10 | 6 | 9 |
| Lung, Bronchus | 29 | 30 | 4 | 4 |
| Breast | - | - | 12 | 12 |
| Uterus | - | - | 6 | 5 |
| Intestinal | 7 | 10 | 9 | 10 |
| Prostate | 9 | 3 | - | - |
| Bladder | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Brain | - | - | - | 2 |
| Other | 13 | 16 | 13 | 16 |
| Totals | 73 | 72 | 54 | 59 |