London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Greenwich 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough.
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The inset table showing the causes of deaths at all ages has been supplied by the Registrar-General and is included in accordance with the Ministry of Health's request.
| No. in Short List. | Causes of Death | Sex | Deaths at subjoined Ages of " Residents," whether occurring within or without the District. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Ages. | Under 1. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 45. | 45 and under 65. | 65 and under 75. | 75 and over. | |||
| All Causes | M | 486 | 25 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 47 | 124 | 145 | 129 | |
| F | 442 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 24 | 93 | 86 | 210 | ||
| 1 | Tuberculosis, Respiratory | M | 26 | ... | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 6 | ||
| F | 15 | ... | 1 | 5 | 8 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | Tuberculosis, Other | M | 2 | ... | 1 | 1 | |||||
| F | 1 | ... | 1 | ||||||||
| 3 | Syphilitic Disease | M | 3 | ... | 3 | ||||||
| F | 2 | ... | 1 | ||||||||
| 4 | Diphtheria | M | ... | ||||||||
| F | ... | ||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | M | ... | |||||||||
| F | 1 | ... | |||||||||
| 6 | Meningococcal Infections | M | ... | ||||||||
| F | ... | ||||||||||
| 7 | Acute Poliomyelitis | M | ... | ||||||||
| F | ... | ||||||||||
| 8 | Measles | M | ... | ||||||||
| F | ... | ||||||||||
| 9 | Other Infective and Parasitic | M | ... | 2 | |||||||
| Diseases | F | ... | |||||||||
| 10 | Malignant Neoplasm, Stomach | M | ... | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | ||||
| F | 13 | ... | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |||||
| 11 | Malignant Neoplasm, Lung, | M | 21 | ... | 1 | 14 | 5 | 1 | |||
| Bronchus | F | 5 | ... | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 12 | Malignant Neoplasm, Breast | M | ... | ||||||||
| F | 12 | ... | 2 | 6 | 4 | ||||||
| 13 | Malignant Neoplasm, Uterus | F | 7 | ... | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 14 | Other Malignant and Lymphatic Neoplasms | M | 53 | ... | 1 | 4 | 18 | 20 | 10 | ||
| F | 38 | ... | 1 | 16 | 12 | 9 | |||||
| 15 | Leukaemia, Aleukaemia | M | 3 | ... | 1 | 1 | |||||
| F | 3 | ... | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| 16 | Diabetes | M | 4 | ... | 2 | 2 | |||||
| F | 3 | ... | l | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 17 | Vascular Lesions of Nervous | M | 34 | ... | 2 | 4 | 15 | 12 | |||
| System | F | 47 | ... | 12 | 13 | 22 | |||||
| 18 | Coronary Disease, Angina | M | 66 | ... | 5 | 14 | 27 | 20 | |||
| F | 32 | ... | 8 | 6 | 18 | ||||||
| 19 | Hypertension with Heart Disease | M | 13 | ... | 3 | 4 | 6 | ||||
| F | 22 | ... | 4 | 4 | 14 | ||||||
| 20 | Other Heart Disease | M | 62 | ... | 1 | 3 | 17 | 20 | 21 | ||
| F | 98 | ... | 2 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 64 | ||||
| 21 | Other Circulatory Disease | M | 25 | ... | 1 | 1 | 3 | 20 | |||
| F | 28 | ... | 1 | 3 | 7 | 17 | |||||
| 22 | Influenza | M | 2 | ... | 1 | ||||||
| F | 3 | ... | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| 23 | Pneumonia | M | 18 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | |||
| F | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |||||
| 24 | Bronchitis | M | 33 | ... | 1 | 7 | 12 | 13 | |||
| F | 26 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 17 | |||||
| 25 | Other Diseases of Respiratory System | M | 6 | ... | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| F | 3 | ... | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| 26 | Ulcer of Stomach and Duodenum | M | 8 | ... | 2 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| F | 3 | ... | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| 27 | Gastritis, Enteritis and Diarrhoea | M | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| F | 1 | ... | 1 | ||||||||
| 28 | Nephritis and Nephrosis | M | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| F | 4 | ... | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| 29 | Hyperplasia of Prostate | M | 11 | ... | 1 | 4 | 6 | ||||
| 30 | Pregnancy, Childbirth, abortion | F | ... | ||||||||
| 31 | Congenital Malformations | M | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| F | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 32 | Other defined and ill-defined Diseases | M | 47 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 8 | ||
| F | 44 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 17 | ||||
| 33 | Motor Vehicle Accidents | M | 5 | ... | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| F | 2 | ... | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 34 | All other Accidents | M | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
| F | 7 | ... | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| 35 | Suicide | M | 4 | ... | 1 | 3 | |||||
| F | 1 | ... | 1 | ||||||||
| 36 | Homicide and Operations of War | M | ... | ||||||||
| F | ... | ||||||||||