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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 1942

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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Table: Deaths Registered during the Year 1942

Deaths Registered during the Year 1942

Cause or DeathMalesFemalesTotal
1 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers.........
2 Cerebro-spinal lever.........
3 Scarlet fever.........
4 Whooping cough...11
5 Diphtheria.........
6 Tuberculosis of respiratory system171986
7 Other forms of tuberculosis5...5
8 Syphilitic diseases426
9 Influenza213
10 Measles.........
11 Acute polio-myelitis and polio-encephalitis.........
12 Acute infectious encephalitis.........
13 Cancer of buccul cavity and oesophagus (m) and uterus (f)6915
14 Cancer of stomach and duodenum10818
15 Cancer of breast...1111
16 Cancer of all other sites342660
17 Diabetes123
18 Intra-oranial vascular lesions233659
19 Heart disease5667123
20 Other diseases of circulatory system11920
21 Bronchitis171229
22 Pneumonia161127
23 Other respiratory diseases224
24 Ulcer of stomach or duodenum628
25 Diarrhoea (under two years)325
26 Appendicitis.........
27 Other digestive diseases6713
28 Nephritis134
29 Puerperal and post-abortive sepsis.........
30 Other maternal causes...11
31 Premature birth10616
32 Congenital malformations, birth injuries, infantile disease437
33 Suicide325
34 Road traffic accidents3...3
35 Other violent causes11516
36 All other causes182139
All causes269268537