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Carshalton 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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DEATHS
The deaths allocated to the district, as adjusted by inward and outward
transferable deaths, was 482—254 males and 228 females. This gives a
crude death rate of 7.8 per thousand population as against 8.0 in the year
before. The "comparable" death rate produced by the application of the
Registrar-General's comparability factor of 1.21 to allow for differences in
the age and sex constitution of the local population as compared with the
country as a whole was 9.4. The rate for England and Wales was 11.7.
The distribution of the deaths by wards was as follows:
WARD DEATH RATES AND MEAN AGE AT DEATH, 1955.
| Ward | Deaths | Death Rate (crude) | Mean Age at Death |
|---|---|---|---|
The death rate from cancer rose from 1.60 per thousand in 1954 to
1.72 which is the second highest rate recorded for this disease in the district.
The peak mortality for cancer was 2.04 in 1953. Malignant disease of the
lungs accounted for 27 or one quarter of the total cancer deaths.
CANCER DEATHS—WARD DISTRIBUTION, 1955.
| Ward | Cancer Deaths | Rate per 1,000 Estimated Population |
|---|---|---|
The classification of the cancer deaths by sites affected is given in
Table 5.
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