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Barking 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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SECTION A.
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
1. BIRTHS.
There were 1,205 live births during the year and the figure for
1941 was 1,017. The still births numbered twenty-nine, those for the
previous year being thirty.
2. DEATHS.
(a) General.
The deaths registered in Barking in the year 1942 numbered 263.
Seven of these were deaths of non-residents and the number of Barking
residents who died elsewhere was 310. The net deaths, therefore, were
566 (including residents who died elsewhere and excluding the deaths
of visitors):-
Males. Females. Total.
314 252 566
The principal causes of death are set out here under:-
(net deaths).
| Causes of Death. | Total. |
|---|---|
| Cerebro Spinal Fever | 3 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 1 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 37 |
| Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 7 |
| Syphilitic diseases. | 9 |
| Influenza | 3 |
| Acute Inf. Encephalitis | 2 |
| Canoer (all forms) | 104 |
| Diabetes | 3 |
| Intra-cranial Vascular lesions | 37 |
| Heart Disease | 115 |
| Other diseases of circulatory system | 28 |
| Bronchitis | 25 |
| Pneumonia | 35 |
| Other respiratory diseases | 4 |
| Ulcer of stomach or duodenum | 9 |
| Diarrhoea (under 2 years) | 1 |
| Appendicitis | 4 |
| Other digestive diseases | 15 |
| Nephritis | 14 |
| Otherer maternal causes | 2 |
| Premature Birth | 12 |
| Congenital Malformations, birth injury, infantile diseases | 20 |
| Suicide | 3 |
| Road traffic accidents | 8 |
| Other violent causes | 17 |
| A11 other causes | 47 |
| Totals. | 566 |