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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 1944

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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Table: The principal causes of deaths are shown in the following tables, supplied by the Registrar General.(NET DEATHS)

The principal causes of deaths are shown in the following tables, supplied by the Registrar General.

(NET DEATHS)

Causes of Death.Total.
Cerebro Spinal Fever1
Scarlet Fever1
Whooping Cough4
Pulmonary Tuberculosis43
Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis5
Syphilitic Diseases1
Influenza4
Acute Inf. Encephalitis1
Cancer (all forms)115
Diabetes3
Intra-cranial Vascular Lesions51
Heart Disease133
Other diseases of circulatory system19
Bronchitis25
Pneumonia42
Other respiratory diseases9
Ulcer of Stomach or Duodenum10
Diarrhoea (under 2 years)1
Appendicitis2
Other digestive diseases14
Nephritis9
Other Maternal causes1
Premature Birth8
Congenital Malformations, birth injury, infantile diseases15
Suicide7
Road traffic accidents9
Other violent causes71
All other causes40
Total644

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(b) Infant Mortality.
Thirty-six children under the age of one year died
during the period under review, there being 46 such