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Ealing 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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The distribution of the deaths is distributed as follows for the separate Wards, viz. :—
| In the Borough. | Outside the Borough. | |
|---|---|---|
| Drayton Ward | 55 | 11 |
| Castlebar Ward | 78 | 23 |
| Mount Park Ward | 66 | 7 |
| Lammas Ward | 85 | 26 |
| Manor Ward | 110 | 30 |
| Grange Ward | 84 | 13 |
| 478 | 110 | |
| Deaths outside the District | 110 | |
| Deaths inside the District | 478 | |
| Deaths in Hospitals (local) | 28 | |
| Total | 616 | |
Twenty-five deaths took place in King Edward
Memorial Hospital, and 3 in our Isolation Hospital.
Causes of Deaths.
The causes of and ages at death of the 616 residents
of the Borough (being fourteen fewer than in
1912) are shown fully in the appended official Table
No. 3. A comparison of this Table with the corresponding
one of the previous year shows no great
variety between the two years. I will only refer
briefly to a few of the causes of the mortality.
Cancer (malignant diseases) and Tuberculosis (of
all kinds) are approximately the same for both 1912
and 1913. Seventy-three deaths were registered from
Cancer, giving a death rate of 1.06 per 1,000 of the
population compared with 1.14 in 1912.
Diarrhœa and Enteritis caused twenty-one deaths,
being seventeen more than the previous year, when the
exceptionally small number of four deaths were regis-