Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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Causing Most deaths or important from a Public Health aspect
were as follows: –
Disease | No. of Deaths. | Percent age ol total net deaths registered. |
---|---|---|
Cardio-Vascular System | 41 | 10.62 |
Cancer | 47 | 12.17 |
Tuberculosis(all forms) | 42 | 10.88 |
Pulmonary affections. (exclusive, of tuberculosis), viz., Bronchitis | 38 | 9.84 |
Pneumonies | 25 | 6.47 |
other respiratory disease | 6 | 1.55 |
Zymotic Diseases | 26 | 6.73 |
Of the total deaths, tuberculosis caused one in every 9.1,
heart diseases one in every 9.4, bronchitis one in every 10.1, cancer
one in every 8.2 pneumonia one in every 15.4, suicide and violence
one in every other respiratory diseases one in every 64.3, and
Zymotic diseasse one in every 14.8.
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases__These diseases caused 6.7
Per cent of tfi& total deaths, such deaths being caused in the M'owng proportions:—
Enteric fever | – |
Measles | 0.25 |
Whooping Cough | 3.36 |
Scarlet Fever | 0.25 |
Diptheria | 0.51 |
Diarrhœa | 2.33 |
Smallpox | – |
The average death rate for the quinquennium ended
31st December, 1925, was 9.8 per 1,000 population.