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Pneumonia:
The figures show that pneumonia did not by any means act only as the
friend (or enemy) of the old. Just over half of the people who died of
pneumonia were aged 55 or over. Three were infants, one a girl in her
'teens, two were between the ages of 25 and 45, five between 45 and 65.
Pneumonia is still a disease to be reckoned with and more needs to be done
towards its prevention.
Bronchitis:
Much the same can be said about this cause of death. Only 32 of the
67 deaths were persons over the age of 75. One infant was carried off, one
school child, and one young man. Bronchitis is much commoner in men, partly
because more men work in very dusty conditions and partly because more men
smoke cigarettes. Not a single woman died from bronchitis in Edmonton under
the age of 65 but nine men died. Between the ages of 65 and 75 there were
three times as many deaths from bronchitis among men as among women. As I
have said before women who do not wish to be widows should not buy their
husbands cigarettes.