[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Crayford].
- Crayford (London, England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- [1953?]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Crayford]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Crayford Urban District Council To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District Council. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present my Annual Report for the year 1952. The vital statistics of the Urban District were satisfactory but it should be remembered that they do not tell the full story in regard to the health of the area. To complete the picture we should, also, require morbidity statistics relating to the number of residents who, during the year, attended hospital, or their private doctors, who resorted to self medi cation or even failed to achieve that general level of well being which is consistent with health. Such information is not available, but it is clear from indirect sources of in formation that the number of such persons was considerable. Nevertheless, the vital statistics as presented, in that they are capable of comparison with other districts and with events in previous years, may be accepted with guarded optimism. The birth rate during 1952 was 14.4 per 1,000 of the home population compared with 13.9 in 1951, and with a rate for England and Wales for 1952 of 15.3 per 1,000. The birth rate for the District corrected by the use of the Registrar General's comparability factor (0.93) which allows for com parisons with other areas, was 13.4. The death rate for the district, during 1952, was 9.11 per 1,000 of the home population compared with 9.56 per 1,000 in 1951, and with a 1952 rate for England and Wales of 11.3. The Crayford death rate for 1952 corrected by the comparability factor (1.21) for deaths was 11.2 per 1,000. The infant mortality rate for 1952 was 25 per 1,000 live births compared with 20.7 in 1951. The general death rate of infants under 1 year of age for England and Wales for 1952 was 27.6. Of the 10 infantile deaths occurring during 1952 in the Urban District, nine occurred in the neonatal period (within one month of birth) and were due to causes [ 3 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b1978644X_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
