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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 1970

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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18.

Table: CAUSES OF DEATH 1970

CAUSES OF DEATH 1970

CAUSE OF DEATHAGE AT DEATH
Under 1 yr1 and under 5 years5 and under 15 years15 and under 25yrs25 and under 45yrs45 and under 65yrs65 and under 75yrs75 and overTotal
MFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMF
1. Cholera------------------
2. Typhoid Fever------------------
3. Bacillary dysentery and amoebiasis------------------
4. Enteritis and other diarrhoeal diseases1-1-------------2-
5. Tuberculosis of respiratory system------------------
6. Other tuberculosis including late effects------------2--121
7. Plague------------------
8. Diphtheria-----------------
9. Whooping Cough1---------------1-
10. Streptococcal sore throat and scarlet fever------------------
11. Meningococcal infection------------------
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-----------111--12
19. Malignant Neoplasm:-
(a) buccal cavity etc.----------221---32
(b) oesophagus----------12622-94
(c) stomach----------175137953917
(d) intestine------1--29611134142535
(e) larynx----------1-1-2-4-
(f) lung, bronchus--------1147959621812824
carried forward2-1---1-1377259429382821485