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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 1923
Report for the year 1923 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Centenarian.
The death of a female aged 100 years, was registered during the
year.
Causes of Death.
The incidence of the chief causes of mortality shows very plainly
in a tabular list of the six principal death-causing diseases in 1923; it
will be noted that Cancer is now well ahead of every other disease, and
is three times as destructive as tuberculosis:—
Cancer 158
Heart disease 133
Respiratory disease 119
Tuberculosis 58
Cerebral hæmorrhage, &c. 50
Arterio-sclerosis 47
The following diseases and causes of death call for special
mention:—
Maternal Deaths.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, child-birth:—
(1) From Sepsis
at home -
in hospital 2
(2) Other Causes
at home 1
in hospital 1
Infantile Mortality.
Deaths of infants under one year of age and rate per 1000 births:—
Legitimate. Illegitimate. Total.
No. Rate per 1000
legitimate births.
No. Rate per 1000
illegitimate births.
No. Rate per 1000
births.
42 36
12 158
54 44