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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 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]

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Table: Ward and Sex allocation of Deaths of Hampstead Residents during the year 1938.

Ward and Sex allocation of Deaths of Hampstead Residents during the year 1938.

CAUSES OF DEATH.Town 1.Belsize 2.Adelaide 3.Central 4.West End 5.Kilburn 6.Priory 7.Totals.
M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.
All Causes56736797546749777110691884885436593
1.Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers........................1...............1...
2.Measles......1..................1............11
3.Scarlet Fever................................................
4.Whooping Cough................................................
5.Diphtheria................................................
6.Influenza......11......1......2...11...34
7.Encephalitis Lethargica................................................
8.Cerebro-spinal Fever............1..................1......11
9.Tuberculosis of respiratory system116...32...2144...642113
10.Other Tuberculous Diseases...........................11......112
11.Syphilis................................................
12.General paralysis of the insane, tabes dorsalis1...1...3...........................5...
13.Cancer, malignant diseases7111015616111711201419101769115
14.Diabetes15......111112...211512
15.Cerebral hæmorrhage, &c.612423...32312121418
15.Heart Disease1118212711141426173621351023105178
17.Aneurysm...1...2111...2121...167
18.Other circulatory diseases7103724323934272343
19.Bronchitis11...111...2...121......47
20.Pneumonia (all forms)242644568564252964
21.Other Respiratory Diseases...21......2...1...11......228
22.Peptic Ulcer...131............1...4......385
23.Diarrhœa, &c.1...121......1...13...1276
24.Appendicitis.........1......1...21............32
25.Cirrhosis of Liver...............1...1............1...12
26.Other diseases of liver, &c..........3..................1.........13
27.Other digestive diseases1312...1112132...1811
28.Acute and Chronic Nephritis...3...512113331341119
29.Puerperal Sepsis................................................
30.Other Puerperal causes.........1.................................1
31.Congenital debility, premature birth, malformations, &c.6231221...3143232112
32.Senility.........2...2...............3...1...8
33.Suicide1122421232323...1711
34.Other violence242762331282132323
35.Other defined diseases85775758101075454647
36.Causes ill-defined or unknown................................................
Special Causes (included in No. 35 above)................................................
Small-pox................................................