[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney] page 16

Hackney 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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MALIGNANT DISEASE

(a) All sites The 390 deaths in 1960 from malignant disease showed the following age, sex and site distribution.

Age group	Stomach		Lung, bronchus		Breast		Uterus		Other		Totals
Age group	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	Totals
Under 1	-	-	-	-		-	.	-	-	-	-
1-4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1
5-14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
15-24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	3
25-44	3	1	2	1	-	1	-	1	6	3	18
45-64	13	9	38	7	-	18	-	3	37	20	145
65-74	13	6	28	4	-	9	-	5	30	26	121
75 and upwards	2	13	11	3	-	6	-	3	32	32	102
Totals	31	29	79	15	-	34	-	12	108	82	390

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(b) Lung and bronchusThe following tables give details of the deaths and death rates from cancer of the lung and bronchus since 1946:-

Year	Male	Female	Total	Rate per 1,000 population
1946	47	12	59	0.35
1947	44	9	53	0.30
1948	47	20	67	0.39
1949	53	16	69	0.40
1950	60	8	68	0.39
1951	66	13	79	0.46
1952	62	16	78	0.46
1953	78	14	92	0.54
1954	75	11	86	0.51
1955	60	15	75	0.45
1956	76	8	84	0.51
1957	96	16	112	0.68
1958	85	13	98	0.60
1959	89	11	100	0.61
1960	79	15	94	0.58

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Comparative death rates per 1,000 population from malignant disease of lung and bronchus since 1950:-

Year	Hackney	County of London	England & Wales
1950	0.39	0.43	0.28
1951	0.46	0.46	0.30
1952	0.46	0.48	0.32
1953	0.54	0.51	0.34
1954	0.51	0.54	0.37
1955	0.45	0.57	0.39
1956	0.51	0.58	0.41
1957	0.68	0.61	0.43
1958	0.60	0.64	0.44
1959	0.61	0.64	0.46
1960	0.58	0.70	0.48