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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

Crayford 1944

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Crayford]

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Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births125.0
General death rate of infants under 1 year of age for England and Wales46
Death from Cancer (all ages)35
Death from Measles (all ages)0
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages)1
Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age)2

Table: Table showing Summary of Causes of Death registered during the year ended 31st December, 1944.

Table showing Summary of Causes of Death registered during the year ended 31st December, 1944.

CAUSES OF DEATH.MaleFemale
1. Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers——
2. Cerebrospinal fever——
3. Scarlet fever——
4. Whooping cough—1
5. Diphtheria——
6. Tuberculosis of respiratory system68
7. Other form of tuberculosis11
8. Syphlitic diseases2—
9. Influenza—2
10. Measles——
11. Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis——
12. Acute Infantile encaphalitis——
13. Cancer of buccal cavity and oesophagus (M) Uterus (F)—3
14. Cancer of stomach and duodenum45
15. Cancer of breast—2
16. Cancer of all other sites912
17. Diabetes—1
18. Intracranial vascular lesions1111
19. Heart disease2329
20. Other diseases of circularity system15
21. Bronchitis71
22. Pneumonia34
23. Other respiratory diseases21
24. Ulcer of stomach or duodenum7—
25. Diarrhoea under 2 years2—
26. Appendicitis——
27. Other digestive diseases12
28. Nephritis11
29. Puerperal and post-aboTtive sepsis——
30. Other maternal causes——
31. Premature birth23
32. Congenital malformation, birth injuries, infant disease35
33. Suicide—1
34. Road traffic accident2—
35. Other violent causes1823
36. All other causes98
All causes Total114129