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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
Willesden 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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UNCERTIFIED DEATHS—20.
Causes ascribed—Premature Birth 4, Heart Failure and
Heart Disease 5, Bronchitis 3, Asthma 1, Nephritis 1, Deficient
Vitality at Birth 1, Renal Disease 1, Castro Enteritis 3, Surgical
Operation 1.
ILLEGITIMATE DEATHS, 1906.
Illegitimate deaths in Willesden, excluding one belonging to
another district, 29.
Causes—Convulsions 2, Premature 2, Diarrhcea, Epidemic
and Zymotic Enteritis 16, Pneumonia 1, Tuberculosis 1, Marasmus
3, Bronchitis 1, Broncho Pneumonia 1, other causes 2—29.
DISTRIBUTION OF DEATHS IN WARDS.
The ward distribution of deaths is set out in the tables as
hitherto. They differ but little from the general features exhibited
by the wards in previous years.