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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
Bethnal Green 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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30
CANCER.
Cancer was responsible for 153 deaths or 14.9 per
cent, of the total deaths in the Borough. The local
distribution of the disease in these deaths was as
follows :—
M.
F.
Total
Buccal cavity, pharynx
3
4
7
Digestive organs and
peritoneum
44
25
69
(Esophagus (2-1)
Stomach (22-12)
Intestines (5-5)
Rectum (9-3)
Others (6-4)
Respiratory organs
23
4
27
Uterus
—
11
11
Other Female genital
organs
1
1
Breast
1
16
17
Male genito - urinary
organs
9
9
Skin
1
1
2
Other or unspecified
organs
4
6
10
85
68
153
DEATHS FROM MOTOR TRAFFIC.
For some years I have drawn attention to the
mortality from motor traffic accidents in the streets.
Speed restrictions and improved methods of traffic
control seem to have arrested the increase in this
mortality but the following cases occurred among
Bethnal Green residents during 1935, showing that
further attention to this problem is still necessary.