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Hampstead 1913

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

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condition submitted to a competent committee for consideration. This
has been a much needed arrangement, and I look upon it as one from
which great and lasting benefit may accrue.
Senile Mortality.
The deaths of persons of 65 years of age and upwards numbered
359, as compared with 300 in 1912.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
The causes of death are given in Table III. of the Local Government
Board's series of tables, see page 159. The mortality from the
various communicable diseases is given in the section of the Report
devoted to those diseases, see pages 42 and 57. As regards the other
causes of death, the following require special mention:—

Table: Cancer. The following table gives the number of deaths from cancer, and the death.rate per 1000 population in each of the ten years 1903-12:—

Cancer. The following table gives the number of deaths from cancer, and the death.rate per 1000 population in each of the ten years 1903-12:—

Year.No. of Deaths from Cancer.Death-rate per 1000 of the population.
19031051.27
1904851.02
1905730.87
1906931.11
1907690.82
1908840.99
1909851.00
1910901.06
1911861.00
19121021.19
19131001.14

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Of the 100 deaths from cancer, 56 were of females and 44 of males,
but on this point it must be borne in mind that the population of the
Borough was found at the census to consist of 52,688 females and
32,807 males, and thus for this year Cancer was more frequent in males
than in females. In 43 cases the patients were over 65 years of age.