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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
Finsbury 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]
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CAUSES OF DEATH 1961:
1. TUBERCULOSIS RESPIRATORY
2. TUBERCULOSIS OTHER
3. SYPHILITIC DISEASE
4. DIPHTHERIA
5. WHOOPING COUGH
6. MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS
7. ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS
8. MEASLES
9. OTHER INFECTIVE & PARASITIC DISEASES
10. MALIGNANT NEOPLASM-STOMACH
11. „ „ - LUNG BRONCHUS
12. „ „ - BREAST
13. „ „ UTERUS
14. OTHER MALIGNANT & LYMPHATIC NEOPLASMS
15. LEUKAEMIA, ALEUKAEMIA
16. DIABETES
17. VASCULAR LESIONS OF NERVOUS SYSTEM
18. CORONARY DISEASE, ANGINA
19. HYPERTENSION WITH HEART DISEASE
20. OTHER HEART DISEASE
21. OTHER CIRCULATORY DISEASE
22. INFLUENZA
23. PNEUMONIA
24. BRONCHITIS
25. OTHER DISEASES OF RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
26. ULCER OF STOMACH & DUODENUM
27. GASTRITIS, ENTERITIS & DIARRHOEA
28. NEPHRITIS & NEPHROSIS
29. HYPERPLASIA OF PROSTATE
30. PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH, ABORTION
31. CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS
32. OTHER DEFINED AND ILL-DEFINED DISEASES
33. MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS
34. ALL OTHER ACCIDENTS
35. SUICIDE
36. HOMICIDE & OPERATIONS OF WAR
TOTALS:
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