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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
Edmonton 1918
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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Respiratory Diseases, including bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy, and
other non-tuberculous diseases of the respiratory system, gave rise to 34 more
deaths than in 1917. The number was 160, giving a death-rate of 2.14 per
1,000, compared with 126 and a death-rate of 1.73 for the latter year. Some
deaths, certified as due to pneumonia in the last quarter, had influenza as the
primary cause.
The death-rate from all diseases of respiratory organs was very heavy,
both in 1915 and 1916. It was only 1.70 in 1914 and 1.73 in 1917.
Cancer. Fifty-two deaths of Edmonton residents were certified as being
due to cancer, and this is equivalent to a death-rate of 0.70 compared with
0.67 last year. The deaths during 1917-16-15 were 49, 55 and 52.