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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 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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Table: The following table shows the ages of the persons who died from cancer and the organs affected:—

The following table shows the ages of the persons who died from cancer and the organs affected:—

Organ.Under 1 year.1-5 years.5-15 years.15-25 years.25—45 years.45-65 years.Over 65 years.Total.
M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.
Bladder------------1-1-
Bowel-----------1---1
Breast-----------'2-1-3
Caecum-------------1-1
Cervix---------1---1-2
Colon----------112334
Femur-----------1---1
Humerus------1-1-----2-
Kidney--1-----------1-
Larynx------------1-1-
Liver------------1212
Lung---------23---32
Mediastinum-----------1---1
Neck--------1_--2_3_
Oesophagus----------1-1-2-
Ovaries---------1-1---2
Pancreas---------. --1-1-2
Peritoneum---------1-----1
Prostate----------1-2-3-
Rectum--------1-12-426
Sigmoid--------1--1--11
Spleen----------1---1-
Stomach----------525294
Tongue------------1-1-
Tonsil----------1---1-
Uterus---------1-2-2-5
Ventriculi ...11
Totals--1---1-46131616173539

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The various Government Publications dealing with cancer have been circularised
amongst the local practitioners; this together with the liaison which exists between
the local practitioners and the expert pathologists and surgeons of the large London
Hospitals has made it unnecessary for any local activity on the part of the Council.
7. PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS.
Blindness is being prevented in Barking; it is being prevented by the
co-operation of the whole of the services.
One of the chief causes of blindness is Ophthalmia Neonatorum, which is a
purulent discharge from the eyes of an infant, commencing within twenty-one days
of its birth.