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Brentford and Chiswick 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]

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Deaths and Death Rate
There was a rise in the death rate the figure of 11.09 comparing with
one of 10.43 for the previous year.
To make an approximate allowance for the way in which the sex and age dis
tribution 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 1961. this factor was 0 96 and so the corrected death
rate was 10.65.
The corrected rate for Middlesex County was 11.6, and the rate for England
and Wales was 12.0 so the figure for Brentford and Chiswick was well below both
the County and the National rates.
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 principal causes of death were

1961196019591958195719561955
Circulatory Disease (inc
luding coronary disease)218215201222215224206
Heart Disease73847699829196
Cancer (including Leukaemia)134126123130135153139

Coronary disease was the highest individual cause of death in 1961 122
deaths were attributed to this disease 72 male and 50 female The number of
deaths from cancer increased but male deaths from lung cancer were one less
than in 1960 and there were no deaths from leukaemia.
In Chiswick fifty years ago in 1911 one hundred and forty three persons
died age 60+ including twenty-five of age 70+, fourteen aged 80+, and three aged
90+,The death rate in Chiswick for age 60+ was therefore 3.7 per 1,000 of the
estimated resident population Figures for Brentford are not available
In 1961 in Brentford and Chiswick the corresponding figures were as
follows

465 died age 60: including 184 aged 70+, 130 aged 80- and 30 aged 90+ giving a death rate for over age 60 of 8.5. Of total deaths

In 1911(70 1% were of persons below 60 years of age
Chiswick only(29 9% " " " over 60 years of age
In 1961(23 8% 11 " " below 60 years of age
Brentford and(76 2% " " 11 over 60 years of age
Chiswick

So in at least part of the Borough the percentages of persons dying under
age 60 is now less than half of the corresponding percentage fifty years ago.
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