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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 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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CAUSES OF DEATH 1969
| Cause of Death | AGE AT DEATH | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1 and under 5 years | 5 and under 15 years | 15 and under 25years | 25 and under 45years | 45 and under 65years | 65 and under 75years | 75 and over | Total | |||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||
| 1. | Cholera | – | – | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 2. | Typhoid Fever | – | – | – | – | –– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 3. | Bacillary dysentery and Amoebiasis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 4. | Enteritis and other diarrhoeal diseases | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | ||
| 5. | Tuberculosis of Respiratory System | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | 4 | 1 | ||
| 6. | Other Tuberculosis, incl. late effects | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | ||
| 7. | Plague | – | – | –– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 8. | Diphtheria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 9. | Whooping Cough | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 10. | Streptococcal sore throat and scarlet fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 11. | Meningococcal infection | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | _ | |||
| 12. | Acute poliomyelitis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 13. | Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 14. | Measles | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 15. | Typhus and other Rickettsioses | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 16. | Malaria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 17. | Syphilis and its sequelae | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 18. | All other infective and parasitic diseases | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 2 | ||
| 19. | Malignant Neoplasm - Stomach " " - lung, | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 34 | 17 | ||
| bronchus | – | – | – | –– | – | – | – | 2 | - | 56 | 12 | 46 | 6 | 25 | 11 | 129 | 29 | ||
| " " - Breast | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | 21 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 42 | |||||
| " " - Uterus | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 12 | – | 2 | _ | 1 | – | 17 | |
| Leukaemia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | |
| Other Malignant Neoplasms, incl. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Neoplasms of lymphatic and | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | 3 | 3 | 37 | 42 | 28 | 23 | 24 | 3^ | 95 | 104 | |
| Haematopoietic tissue. | |||||||||||||||||||
| carried forward | 2 | – | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | 7 | 8 | 112 | 94 | 89 | 47 | 60 | 67 | 273 | 218 | |