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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
Ilford 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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The following is the Registrar-General's Short List of Deaths
and Causes
TABLE II.
Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1935.
| Causes of Death. | Net Deaths at the subjoined ages of "Residents," whether occurring within or without the District. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 2 years. | 2 and under 5 years. | 5 and under 15 years. | 15 and under 25 years. | 25 and under 35 years. | 35 and under 45 years. | 45 and under 55 years. | 55 and under 65 years. | 65 and under 75 years. | 75 years and upwards. | |
| ALL CAUSES | 1212 | 88 | 10 | 12 | 27 | 32 | 72 | 97 | 128 | 209 | 265 | 272 |
| 1 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2 Measles | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 3 Scarlet fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 4 Whooping cough | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 Diphtheria | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 6 Influenza | 16 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 7 Encephalitis lethargica | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 8 Cerebro-spinal fever | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 9 Tuberculosis of respiratory system | 60 | - | - | - | 1 | 13 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 Other tuberculous diseases | 10 | - | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 11 Syphilis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 12 General paralysis of the insane, tabes dorsalis | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - |
| 13 Cancer, malignant disease | 224 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 7 | 17 | 29 | 66 | 65 | 39 |
| 14 Diabetes | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| 15 Cerebral haemorrhage, etc. | 58 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 16 Heart disease | 322 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 9 | 18 | 29 | 52 | 102 | 109 |
| 17 Aneurysm | 8 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - |
| 18 Other circulatory diseases | 41 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 12 | 12 | 14 |
| 19 Bronchitis | 25 | 2 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 20 Pneumonia (all forms) | 35 | 7 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| 21 Other respiratory diseases | 14 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 22 Peptic ulcer | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | - | - |
| 23 Diarrhoea, etc. | 19 | 14 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| 24 Appendicitis | 12 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 1 |
| 25 Cirrhosis of liver | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 26 Other diseases of liver, etc. | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 Other digestive diseases | 20 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| 28 Acute and chronic nephritis | 36 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 6 |
| 29 Puerperal sepsis | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 30 Other puerperal causes | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 31 Congenital debility, premature birth, malformations, etc. | 56 | 56 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 32 Senility | 33 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 28 |
| 33 Suicide | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 34 Other violence | 39 | - | 2 | - | 7 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| 35 Other defined diseases | 107 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 25 |
| 36 Causes ill-defined or unknown | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Special Causes (included in No. 35 above):- | ||||||||||||
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Polioencephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |