Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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TABLE 1. – Causes of and Ages at Death during year 1939.
Cause of Death | All Ages | 0- | 1- | 2- | 5- | 15- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | 75- |
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Typhoid fever | – | |||||||||||
Measles | – | |||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | – | |||||||||||
Whooping Cough | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Diphtheria | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Influenza | 20 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | ||||
Encephalitis Lethargica | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Cerebro-Spinal Fever | – | |||||||||||
Tuberculosis of respiratory system | 99 | 1 | 14 | 26 | 12 | 19 | 20 | 6 | 1 | |||
Other tuberculosis | 9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Syphilis | 4 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
General paralysis of the Insane | 12 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
Cancer | 265 | 1 | . | 1 | 6 | 17 | 39 | 69 | 78 | 54 | ||
Diabetes | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | ||||||||
Cerebral Haemorrhage | 67 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 21 | 29 | ||||||
Heart Disease | 459 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 33 | 76 | 131 | 194 | |||
Aneurysm | 14 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Other circulatory diseases | 86 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 36 | 33 | ||||||
Bronchitis | 63 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 30 | |||||
Pneumonia | 109 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 28 | 17 | 30 | ||
Other respiratory diseases | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||
Peptic ulcer | 20 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
Diarrhoea | 20 | 17 | 3 | |||||||||
Appendicitis | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Cirrhosis of liver | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Other liver diseases | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Other digestive diseases | 14 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||||
Acute & Chronic Nephritis | 26 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 3 | |||||
Puerperal Sepsis | – | |||||||||||
Other puerperal causes | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Congenital Debility, premature birth &c., | 40 | 38 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Senility | 29 | 4 | 25 | |||||||||
Suicide | 18 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | |||||
Other violence | 64 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 19 | |
Other defined diseases | 120 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 16 | 28 | 37 | |
Ill-defined or not known | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
TOTALS | 1613 | 84 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 35 | 75 | 77 | 147 | 299 | 388 | 484 |
Cases Certified 1344: Inquests 103;
Coroner without inquests 106.