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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

Hampstead 1907

Report for the year 1907 of the Medical Officer of Health

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24
Senile Mortality.
The deaths of persons of 65 years of age and upwards numbered
303, as compared with 322 in 1906. Of these, 50 attained the age
of 85 years and upward.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
The causes of death are given in Table IV. of the Local
Government Board's series of tables, see page 140, and are set out
in more detail in the extended table on the opposite page. The
mortality from the various communicable diseases is given in the
section of the Report devoted to those diseases. The following
causes of death require special mention.

Table: Cancer. The following table gives the number of deaths from cancer, and the death-rate per 1000 population in each of the seven years 1901-07.

Cancer. The following table gives the number of deaths from cancer, and the death-rate per 1000 population in each of the seven years 1901-07.

Year.No. of Deaths from Cancer.Death-rate per 1000 of the population.
1901770.93
1902911.09
19031051.23
1904850.98
1905730.83
1906931.04
1907690.76

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The next table gives the anatomical distribution of the disease
in each sex. It will be noted that a large proportion of the
patients, 52 out of a total of 69 cases, were females. In 28 cases
the patients were over 65 years of age.
Situation.
Males.
Females.
Totals.
Oesophagus1 — 1
Stomach 4 6 10
Liver 2 4 6
Intestines 1 1 2
Pancreas1 2 3
Rectum — 6 6
Other abdominal organs, &c. 3 13 16
Breast — 8 8
Uterus — 5 5
Other situations 5 7 12
Totals 17 52 69