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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

London County Council 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table: By age

By age

Under 1 year13,931
1 year and under 25,899
2—4 years5,682
5—9 „2,113
10—14 „850
15—24 „2,934
25—34 „3,879
35—44 „4,638
45—54 „4,563
55—64 „5,059
65—74 „5,186
75—84 „3,455
85—94 „860
95 years and upwards54
59,103
Births89,577Males45,885
Females43,692
Deaths59,103Males29,769
Females29,334
Population (estimated)2,636,174Males Females1,229,512 1,406,662
Birth rate = 34 per 1,000 population.
Death rate = 22 per 1,000 population.

Table: Causes of Death—Administrative County of London, 1957 (Deaths of infants under one year shown separately towards the end).

Causes of Death—Administrative County of London, 1957 (Deaths of infants under one year shown separately towards the end).

Syphilis and its sequelae146
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever2
Cholera—
Dysentery3
Scarlet fever and streptococcal sore throat1
Erysipelas—
Diphtheria1
Whooping cough—
Meningococcal infections6
Tetanus—
Acute poliomyelitis12
Measles11
Acute infectious encephalitis4
Smallpox—
Typhus—
Inifectious hepatitis (hepatitis, jaundice)35
Other infective and parasitic diseases30
Total infective and parasitic diseases, excluding tuberculosis (Zymotic diseases)251
Cancer of stomach1,020
Cancer of lung, bronchus1,990
Cancer of breast705
Cancer of uterus321
Cancer of other sites3,730
Leukemia, aleukemia185
Non-cancerous growths126
Total malignant and non-malignant growths8,077
Tuberculosis of respiratory system (phthisis or consumption)283
Tuberculosis of other forms (scrofula, tabes mesenterica, hydrocephalus)95
Total tubercular diseases378
Diabetes mellitus146
Anaemias97
Vascular lesions of central nervous system3,886
Non-meningococcal meningitis24