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Ilford 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]

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Table: The following is the Registrar-General's Short List of Deaths and CausesTable III, on page 24, differs very slightly from the Registrar-General's Short List, and has been prepared on the lines of previous Annual Reports:—

The following is the Registrar-General's Short List of Deaths and Causes

Table III, on page 24, differs very slightly from the Registrar-General's Short List, and has been prepared on the lines of previous Annual Reports:—

Causes of Death.M.F.
All Causes.592602
1.Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers—-
2.Measles—-
3.Scarlet fever1-
4.Whooping cough22
5.Diphtheria22
6.Influenza1431
7.Encephalitis lethargica——
8.Cerebro-spinal fever61
9.Tuberculosis of respiratory system4839
10.Other tuberculous diseases44
11.Syphilis31
12.General paralysis of the insane, tabes dorsal is ..3-
13.Cancer, malignant disease7195
14.Diabetes511
15.Cerebral haemorrhage2642
16.Heart disease108145
17.Aneurysm33
18.Other circulatory diseases2121
19.Bronchitis3027
20.Pneumonia (all forms)4139
21.Other respiratory diseases99
22.Peptic ulcer71
23.Diarrhoea, etc. (under 2 years)42
24.Appendicitis45
25.Cirrhosis of liver12
26.Other diseases of liver, etc.18
27.Other digestive diseases1813
28.Acute and chronic nephritis161
29.Puerperal sepsis—6
30.Other puerperal causes—1
31.Congenital debility, premature birth, malformations, etc.4623
32.Senility813
33.Suicide93
34.Other violence351
35.Other defined diseases4451
36.Causes ill-defined or unknown2—
Special Causes (included in No. 35 above):— Smallpox--
Poliomyelitis——
Polioencephalitis--