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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
Marylebone 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE 1.—Deaths— According to Age- Group and Sex.
| Code No. | CAUSE OF DEATH | Net Deaths at the Subjoined Ages of Residents (Male and Female) whether occurring within or without the Borough. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Ages | Under 1 year | 1 and under 5 | 5 and under 15 | 15 and under 45 | 45 and under 65 | 65 and upwards | |||||||||
| M | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| 6 | Tuberculosis of respiratory system | 20 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 3 | - |
| 8 | Syphilitic disease | 7 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 9 | Influenza | 3 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 8 |
| 11 | Acute poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis | I | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 13M | Cancer of buccal cavity and oesophagus (males only) | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | - |
| 13F | Cancer of uterus | - | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 7 | - | 1 |
| 14 | Cancer of stomach and duodenum | 9 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 5 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| 15 | Cancer of breast | - | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | 9 | - | 11 |
| 16 | Cancer of all other sites | 56 | 58 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 22 | 31 | 34 | |
| 17 | Diabetes | 2 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 18 | Intra-cranial vascular lesions | 22 | 58 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 47 |
| 19 | Heart disease | 118 | 138 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 32 | 15 | 84 | 119 |
| 20 | Other diseases of the circulatory system | 21 | 34 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 28 |
| 21 | Bronchitis | 48 | 19 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 37 | 17 |
| 22 | Pneumonia | 30 | 24 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 12 | 6 | 15 | 17 |
| 23 | Other respiratory diseases | 6 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 24 | Ulceration of the stomach or duodenum | 8 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | I | - | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 25 | Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 27 | Other digestive diseases | 12 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 4 |
| 28 | Acute and chronic nephritis | 10 | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | 4 | 8 | 2 | 7 |
| 31 | Premature birth | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 32 | Congenital malformations, birth injury, infantile disease | 6 | 4 | 6 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| 33 | Suicide | 10 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | - |
| 34 | Road traffic accidents | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| 35 | Other violent causes | 15 | 16 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 | - | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 36 | All other causes | 17 | 26 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 15 |
| Totals | 432 | 505 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 30 | 128 | 122 | 256 | 341 | |
| 937 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 65 | 250 | 597 | |||||||||
No death occurred from the following causes not shown in the table ; Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers,
cerebro-spinal fever, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria (Code Nos. 1-5), other forms of tuberculosis
(No. 7), measles (No. 10), acute infectious encephalitis (No. 12), appendicitis (No. 26), puerperal and post-abortive
sepsis, other maternal causes (Nos. 29-30).
TABLE 2.—Infantile Mortality—According to Age-Group and Sex.
| Code No. | CAUSE OF DEATH | Under 1 week | 1 and under 2 weeks | 2 and under 4 weeks | 1 and under 3 months | 3 and under 6 months | 6 and under 9 months | 9 and under 12 months | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| 7 | Diarrhoea | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Enteritis | ||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Congenital malformation | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 2 |
| 13 | Premature birth | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 5 | |
| 15 | Atelectasis | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| 25 | Pneumonia (all forms) | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| 27 | Other causes | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Totals | 7 | 6 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 11 | 9 | |
| 13 | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 20 | ||||||||||
No infantile death occurred from the following causes not shown in the table : Small-pox, chicken-pox, measles,
scarlet fever, diphtheria and membranous croup, whooping cough (Code Nos. 1—6), tuberculous meningitis,
abdominal tuberculosis, other tuberculous diseases (Nos. 9—11), atrophy, debility and marasmus (No. 14), injury
at birth, erysipelas, syphilis, rickets, meningitis (not tuberculous), convulsions, gastritis, laryngitis, bronchitis (Nos,
16—24), suffocation, overlying (No. 26).