[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Blaby R.D.C.
- Blaby (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1954
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Blaby R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Age Incidence of Death Males Females Totals Percentage Under 4 weeks 8 1 9 2.1 4 -weeks - 1 year 1 3 4 0,9 1 - 4 years - - - - 5 - 14 n 2 0 2 0,5 15 - 24 n 2 1 3 0,7 25 - 34 R 5 2 7 1.6 35 - 44 n 5 10 15 3o5 45 - 54 M 20 15 35 8.1 55 - 64 R 30 37 67 15o5 65 - 74 n 62 43 105 24.2] 1 75 - 84 R 58 75 133 30.7] 1 67.2 85 - 94 H 19 33 51 11.8 95 - 100 n - 2 2 0.5) 100 + - - - - A very encouraging picture - 67^ of those who died exceeded the age of 65 years and 429^ exceeded 75 years of agCo In other ■words, over 675® of us should live to draw the Old Age Pension, and 45^ will be able to draw the pension for at least ten years with lots more to cameo Let us hope that -when we stagger along, cap in hand, the contribution -will make the journey worth -while. Let us look again at the table and observe that two women exceeded 95 years, -whereas all the men had fallen by the way-side. The average age at -which the males died in Blaby Rural District ■was 68 years and females 74 years. In England and Wales the expectation of life at birth in 1953 was 67 years for males and 72 years for females, -whilst in 1871-80, it -was 41 years for males and 45 years for females. Although pleased -with ourselves, let us not be too parochial in our outlook and cast a thought to the plight of young and old elsewhere in the world, -which through modem methods of travel seems to be getting smaller and smaller. The World Health Organisation reminds us that two-thirds of all the people in the world are undernourished and have an expectation of life of no more than thirty years - just about what we in this country enjoyed during the reign of Elizabeth I. The candle of life bums long for \is now and has become guarded more and more against the ill-winds that used to blow it out so tragically soon.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28930459_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
