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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

Barking 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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Table: causing most deaths or important from a Public Health aspect were as follows :—

causing most deaths or important from a Public Health aspect were as follows :—

Disease.No. of Deaths.Percentage of total net deaths registered.
Cardio-vascular system5914.5
Cancer5112.5
Tuberculosis (all forms)4611.3
Pulmonary affections, (exclusive of tuberculosis), viz., Bronchitis194.6
Pneumonia317.6
Other respiratory disease40.9
Zymotic Diseases184.4

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Of the total deaths, tuberculosis caused one in every 8.8, heart
diseases one in every 6.8, bronchitis one in every 21.3, cancer one
in every 7.9, pneumonia one in every 13.0, suicide and violence
one in every 18.4, other respiratory diseases one in every 101.5, and
zymotic diseases one in every 22.5.
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases.—These diseases caused 4.4 per
cent, of the total deaths, such deaths being caused in the following
proportions:—
Enteric Fever 0.49
Measles —
Whooping Cough 1.72
Scarlet Fever —
Diphtheria 0.49
Diarrhoea 1.72
S mallpox —