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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
Deptford 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Deaths from Cancer by Sex and Age.
| Year | Sex | Under 25 years | 25 to 45 years | '45 to 65 years | 65 to 75 years | 75 years and upwards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Male | 1 | 9 | 44 | 20 | 13 | 87 |
| Female | —- | 8 | 38 | 17 | 14 | 77 | |
| T otal | 1 | 17 | 82 | 37 | 27 | 164 | |
| 1926 | Male | 1 | 4 | 36 | 24 | 9 | 74 |
| Female | 1 | 5 | 36 | 27 | 16 | 85 | |
| Total | 2 | 9 | 72 | 51 | 25 | 159 | |
| 1927 | Male | — | 2 | 39 | 36 | 15 | 92 |
| Female | 1 | 5 | 38 | 22 | 12 | 78 | |
| Total | 1 | 7 | 77 | 58 | 27 | 170 | |
| 1928 | Male | — | 7 | 38 | 20 | 11 | 76 |
| Female | — | 11 | 22 | 26 | 17 | 76 | |
| Total | — | 18 | 60 | 46 | 28 | 152 | |
| 1929 | Male | 3 | 7 | 33 | 22 | 7 | 72 |
| Female | 1 | 8 | 47 | 14 | 8 | 78 | |
| Total | 4 | 15 | 80 | 36 | 15 | 150 |
Diabetes.
To meet the difficulty that some uninsured persons might experience
in obtaining supplies of Insulin, the Borough Council decided to make
such provision for necessitous persons. In one instance a supply was
granted.
Dental Sepsis.
We are so accustomed to tabulating diseases under certain specified
official headings that we are apt to think of them rather in terms descriptive
of their fatal issues than of their causation. In Dental Sepsis,
we have a condition which, viewed either from its prevalence or its
potential power to initiate a departure from health, is of the very first
importance. The popular view that disease of the teeth and gums is a
purely local condition and, at the worst, subjects the patient to pain and