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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 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DEATH (all ages)
Diseases of Heart and Circulatory system 615
Cancer and Other Malignant Diseases 515
Pneumonia, Bronchitis and other Respiratory Diseases
(excluding tuberculosis) 265
Diseases of the Brain and Nervous System 213
I give below for purpose of comparison the birth and death rates of
Barking, Greater London and England iand Wales for 1968.
Live Births
(per 1,000 population)
Barking
13.6
Greater London
16.4
England & Wales
16.9
Stillbirths
(per 1,000 live and stillbirths)
13.7
13.5
l4.3
Infant Mortality
(per 1,000 live births)
17-8
18.6
18.3
Deaths
(per 1,000 population)
11.0
11.6
11.9
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