[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of] page 6

Southwark 1960

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CLASSIFICATION OF DEATHS

Causes of Death		Total Deaths 1960	Total Deaths 1959
Nos.	All causes - Males, Females	Total Deaths 1960	Total Deaths 1959
1	Tuberculosis of Respiratory System	14	11
2	Tuberculosis - other forms	-	2
3	Syphilitic Disease 1	6	2
4	Diphtheria	-	-
5	Whooping Cough	1	-
6	Meningococcal Infections	2	-
7 8	Acute Poliomyelitis Measles	-	-
9	Other Infective and Parasitic diseases	2	2
10	Malignant neoplasm stomach	40	24
11	Malignant neoplasm lung, bronchus	74	64
12	Malignant neoplasm breast	18	15
13	Malignant neoplasm uterus	9	9
14	Other malignant and lymphatic neoplasms	106	88
15	Leukaemia, Aleukemia	12	3
16	Diabetes	4	8
17	Vascular lesions of nervous system	129	120
18	Coronary disease, angina	188	149
19	Hypertension with Heart disease	18	15
20	Other Heart disease	160	206
21	Other Circulatory disease	53	64
22	Influenza	-	30
23	Pneumonia	91	102
24	Bronchitis	83	113
25	Other diseases of Respiratory system	13	17
26	Ulcer of the Stomach and Duodenum	11	19
27	Gastritis, Enteritis and Diarrhoea	5	3
28	Nephritis and Nephrosis	9	8
29	Hyperplasia of prostate	1	8
30	Pregnancy, Childbirth, Abortion	1	-
31	Congenital Malformations	15	14
32	Other defined and ill-defined diseases	86	71
33	Motor Vehicle Accidents	12	16
34	All other accidents	18	19
35	Suicide	20	9
36	Homicide and operations of war	2
TOTALS		1,203	1,211