London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Acton 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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AGES AT DEATH AND WARD DISTRIBUTION OF DEATHS IN 1948.
| Causes of Death | Total | Under 1 year | 1—2 | 2—5 | 5—15 | 15—25 | 25—45 | 45—65 | 65 + | Ward Distribution. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N.E. | N.W. | S.E. | S.W. | ||||||||||
| — | |||||||||||||
| Nephritis | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| Parturition Disease (not child birth | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Peptic Ulcer | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 4 | 2 | — | |||
| Pneumonia | 2 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Prostatic Enlargement | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | |||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | — | — | — | — | 6 | — | |||||||
| Respiratory Disease | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Rheumatism & Endocrine Diseases | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | |||
| Scarlet Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Senility | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 19 | 10 | ||||
| Suicides | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | ||||
| T.B. (other than Pulmonary) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | ||
| Undefined Disease | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | ||||
| Violent Deaths | — | — | 4 | — | 16 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 3 | ||||
| Whooping Cough | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | |
| TOTALS | 6 | 9 | 138 | 418 | 224 | 191 | 99 | ||||||