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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

Mitcham 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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Table: Deaths Registered during the Year, 1937.

Deaths Registered during the Year, 1937.

Cause of Death.Males.Females.Total.
Typhoid and paratyphoid.........
Measles.........
Scarlet Fever.........
Whooping Cough3…3
Diphtheria325
Influenza7815
Encephalitis lethargica1...1
Cerebro-spinal Fever...11
Tuberculosis of the Respiratory 8ystem222345
Other Tuberculous Diseases617
Syphilis3...3
General Paralysis of the insane, tabes dorsalis.........
Cancer, malignant disease334376
Diabetes527
Cerebral Hemorrhage111425
Heart Disease5464118
Aneurism3...3
Other Circulatory Diseases161228
Bronchitis16824
Pneumonia (all forms)211758
Other Respiratory Diseases145
Peptic Ulcer4...4
Diarrhoea, Ac. (under two years)235
Appendicitis314
Cirrhosis of the Liver...22
Other Diseases of the Liver, etc213
Other Digestive Diseases51217
Acute and Chronic Nephritis3912
Puerperal sepsis.........
Other Puerperal causes...22
Congenital Debility, Premature Birth, Malformations, etc.91019
Senility6814
Suicide3912
Other Violence13518
Other defined Diseases271542
Causes ill-defined or unknown112
Total283277560
Special Causes:—
Small Pox.........
Poliomyelitis.........
Polio-encephalitis.........