[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough] page 12

Wandsworth 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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12 REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR 1954
Table III is the general mortality Table for the whole Borough
and shows the number of deaths from each cause divided into
sexes, age-groups and sub-districts.
TABLE III. causes of, and ages at death, during the year 1954

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causes of death	deaths in or belonging to whole district at subjoined ages									deaths in or belonging to localities (all ages)
causes of death	All Ages	Males	Females	Under 1 year	1 and under 5	5 and under 15	15 and under 45	45 and under 65	65 and upwards	Putney	Central	Clapham	Streatham
Tuberculosis, Respiratory	64	43	21	-	-	-	14	25	25	14	26	13	11
Tuberculosis, Other	4	2	2	-	-	-	2	1	1	2	1	1	-
Syphilitic Disease	21	14	7	-	-	-	-	7	14	8	6	5	2
Diphtheria	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Whooping Cough	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Meningococcal Infections	3	2	1	1	1	-	-	-	1	1	-	2	-
Acute Poliomyelitis	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Measles	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Other Infective and Parasitic Diseases	10	5	5	1	1	2	2	4	-	3	1	4	2
Malignant Neoplasms	1,110	548	562	1	2	-	57	418	632	201	238	520	151
Leukaemia, Aleukaemia	22	16	6	-	2	-	2	8	10	5	4	8	5
Diabetes	15	4	11	-	-	-	2	1	12	4	6	3	2
Vascular Lesions of Nervous System ..	551	210	341	-	-	-	13	95	443	132	160	142	117
Diseases of Heart	1,710	783	927	-	-	1	23	214	1,472	322	773	371	244
Other Circulatory Disease	276	95	181	-	-	1	2	37	236	63	75	71	67
Influenza	23	12	11	-	-	-	-	4	19	6	4	9	4
Pneumonia	192	92	100	5	14	5	3	21	144	54	52	49	37
Bronchitis	231	157	74	2	1	1	-	48	179	56	61	65	49
Other Diseases of Respiratory System	20	13	7	-	1	1	1	7	10	4	5	7	4
Ulcer of Stomach and Duodenum	54	39	15	-	-	-	1	16	37	12	16	15	11
Gastritis, Enteritis, Diarrhoea	17	6	11	2	-	-	2	2	11	4	6	4	3
Nephritis and Nephrosis	40	23	17	1	1	1	6	12	19	9	11	10	10
Hyperplasia of Prostate	40	40	-	-	-	-	1	3	36	7	10	13	10
Pregnancy, Childbirth, Abortion	2	-	2	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	2	-
Congenital Malformations	29	12	17	18	3	3	1	1	3	8	7	8	6
Other Defined and Ill-defined Disease	312	140	172	51	2	4	28	69	158	79	85	76	72
Motor Vehicle Accidents	22	15	7	-	-	2	6	5	9	7	5	6	4
All other Accidents	70	32	38	3	-	1	10	11	45	16	27	17	10
Suicide	45	26	19	-	-	-	14	19	12	12	13	11	9
Homicide and Operations of War	5	4	1	-	-	-	2	3	-	1	3	-	1
All Causes	4,888	2,333	2,555	85	28	22	194	1,031	3,528	1,030	1,595	1,432	831