[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst] page 68

Chislehurst 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]

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TABLE II.

CAUSES OF DEATH.

		1951	1952	1953	1954	1958
		1951	1952	1953	1954	Male	Female	Total
l.	Tuberculosis—Respiratory	29	17	18	12	6	1	7
2.	Tuberculosis—Other	1	5	2	2	—	—	_
3.	Syphilitic Diseases	3	5	2	1	—	—	—
4.	Diphtheria	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5.	Whooping Cough	1	—	—	—	—	—	—
6.	Meningococcal Infection	—	2	1	—	—	—	—
7.	Acute Poliomyelitis	1	1	1	—	—	1	1
8.	Measles	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
9.	Other infective and parasitic diseases	2	1	1	2		1	1
10.	Malignant neoplasm, stomach	20	22	23	15	13	7	20
11.	Malignant neoplasm, lung bronchus	22	21	38	36	40	4	44
12.	Malignant neoplasm, breast	13	14	13	19	—	13	13
13.	Malignant neoplasm, uterus	7	5	5	9	—	8	8
14.	Other malignant and lymphatic neoplasms	70	65	75	70	44	28	72
15.	Leukaemia, aleukaemia	2	8	8	5	2	4	6
16.	Diabetes	6	7	5	1	1	3	4
17.	Vascular lesions of nervous system	90	103	66	79	41	57	98
18.	Coronary disease, angina	92	101	99	107	78	35	113
19.	Hypertension with heart disease	35	16	13	22	9	11	20
20.	Other heart disease	118	117	96	87	31	49	80
21.	Other circulatory disease	26	40	51	25	19	23	42
22.	Influenza	9	2	11	1	2	1	3
23.	Pneumonia	28	27	32	28	18	19	37
24.	Bronchitis	50	38	44	39	33	9	42
25.	Other diseases of respiratory system	2	7	4	6	2	6	8
26.	Ulcer of stomach or duodenum	14	8	10	10	4	2	6
27.	Gastritis, enteritis and diarrhoea	4	3	7	4	4	4	8
28.	Nephritis and nephrosis	5	7	8	5	6	2	8
29.	Hyperplasia of prostate	4	4	6	6	2	—	. 2
30.	Pregnancy, childbirth, abortion	4	2	—	—	—	1	1
31.	Congenital malformation	14	10	8	8	3	7	10
32.	Other defined and ill-defined diseases	58	59	56	59	29	39	68
33.	Motor vehicle accidents	6	4	9	5	4	1	5
34.	All other accidents	12	10	7	9	3	7	10
35.	Suicide	9	8	13	6	5	5	10
36.	Homicide and operations of war
	All causes	757	739	732	678	399	348	747