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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
Carshalton 1957
[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 504—263 males and 241 females. This gives a crude
death rate of 8.3 per thousand population as against 8.5 in the year before.
The "comparable" death rate produced by the application of the RegistrarGeneral's
comparability factor of 1.28 to allow for differences in the age
and sex constitution of the local population as compared with the country as
a whole was 10.6. The rate for England and Wales was 11.5.
The distribution of the deaths by wards was as follows :—
WARD DEATH RATES AND MEAN AGE AT DEATH, 1957.
| Ward | Deaths | Death Rate (crude) | Mean Age at Death |
|---|---|---|---|
The deaths from cancer were rather higher at 103 giving a mortality
rate for this cause of 1.70 per thousand of population, the increase being
accounted for by the greater number due to cancer of the lungs. The great
disparity in the mortality from lung cancer as between the sexes was again
evidenced in 1957, fatal disease being ten times more common in the males.
DEATHS FROM CANCER OF THE LUNGS 1934-57.
1934 0
1935 1
1936 3
1937 6
1938 10
1939 9
1940 4
1941 9
1942 4
1943 13
19448
194512
1946 8
1947 21
1948 15
1949 1950 3
1951z2
1952 1
1953 0
1954 0
1955 7
1956 8
1957 5
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