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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 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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Deaths and Death Rate
The death rate fell considerably, from 12 31 in 1963, to 10 83 in 1964.
This was the lowest death rate since 1960
In normal years the Registrar-General supplied a comparability factor,
to allow for the way in which the sex and age of the local population differed
from that of England and Wales as a whole, but this year the figure will be too
late so a corrected death rate is not available, but for the past six years
this factor has been 0.96 or l.0 for the Borough of Brentford and Chiswick and
one may assume that the corrected death rate will be the same as, or very little
less than the crude death rate
Table I gives a list of Causes of Death as classified according to the International system agreed by the World Health Organisation.
The principal causes of death were:-
| 1964 | 1963 | 1962 | 1961 | 1960 | 1959 | 1958 | 1957 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circulatory Disease (including coronary disease) | 217 | 259 | 245 | 218 | 215 | 201 | 222 | 215 |
| Heart Disease | 86 | 82 | 76 | 73 | 84 | 76 | 99 | 82 |
| Cancer (including Leukaemis) | 124 | 139 | 155 | 134 | 126 | 123 | 130 | 135 |
Deaths from Measles Nil
Deaths from Whooping Cough Nil
Deaths from Diphtheria Nil
Deaths from Puerperal causes Nil
Deaths from Tuberculosis 2
Deaths from Poliomyelitis Nil
The distribution of cancer deaths in sites and ages are shown below.
Site of Primary Growth
| Male | Fema1e | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 1963 | 1962 | 1961 | 1964 | 1963 | 19 62 | 1961 | |
| Stomach | 7 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 |
| Lung, Bronchus | 20 | 23 | 34 | 26 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 7 |
| Breast | - | - | - | - | 10 | 18 | 13 | 15 |
| Uterus | - | - | - | - | 5 | 7 | 6 | 2 |
| Intestinal | 5 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 10 |
| Prostate | 1 | 6 | 5 | 9 | = | - | - | - |
| Bladder | 1 | 2 | 5 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Brain | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| Other | 18 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 20 | 21 | 25 | 17 |
| Leukaemis | 6 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 0 | |
| Totals | 60 | 65 | 81 | 71 | 64 | 74 | 74 | 63 |
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