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Hornsey 1939

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE A.BOROUGH OP HORNSEY VITAL STATISTICS, 1911.1939.

TABLE A.

BOROUGH OP HORNSEY VITAL STATISTICS, 1911.1939.

Total.All ages0-11-22-55-1515-2525-3535-4545-5555-6565-7575 & over
MFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMF
1.Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers101.............................................1..................1
2,Measles000..................................................................2
3.Scarlet Fever000..................................................................3
4.Whooping cough.220......2.........................................................4
5.Diphtheria440............1...3.............................................5
6.Influenza174131....................................212...214136
7.Encephalitis lethargica110......................................................1...............7
8.Cerebrospinal fever2I1..................11......................................................8
9.Tuberculosis of respiratory system512922...............1...146374371535.........9
10.Other tuberculous diseases312...............1......1............1........................10
11.Syphilis321...1..........................................2...............11
12.General paralysis of the insane, tabes dorsalis000..................................................................12
13.Cancer, malignant disease1647787..............................31310101118122426192713
14.Diabetes20713.......................................1......14541414
15.Cerebral haemorrhage, etc.562432.......................................12143111271515
16Heart disease329140189........................2......4...487222155425211116
17.Aneurysm431..........................................1...1...11......17
18.Other circulatory diseases573120..........................................1157123131518
19.Bronchitis ...177101.............................................1...233719
20.Pneumonia (all forms)5132194...1...11..................434182465520
21Other respiratory diseases532........................1..................11...1......121
22.Peptic ulcer15123..........................................2...41214122
23.Diarrhoea, etc.404.............................................11............23
24Appendicitis1349......1......1......11...1...2......1111...224
25.Cirrhosis of liver220.............................................2...............25
26.Other diseases of liver, etc.422................................................11......1126
27.Other digestive diseases945....................................1.........2...12...227
28.Acute and chronic nephritis25718......1.........1......1...1...3......112102228
29.Puerperal sepsis000..................................................................29
30.Other puerperal causes101.......................................1..............................30
31.Congenital debility, premature birth, malformations, etc.20128118............1.............................................31
32.Senility936............................................................3632
33.Suicide16115..............................2221122...4.........33
34.Other violence372017...1......1......16......1............112351034
35.Other defined diseases723834........................21372......571011131035
36.Causes ill-defined or unknown000..................................................................36
Totals1,01448353l17135134631781621213337308867143129130222
Special causes included in 35 above ,
Small-pox
Poliomyelitis
Polioencephalitis