[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith] page 10

Erith 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith]

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A(1) f. Table showing summary of Causes of Death during the year ended 31st December, 1948.

Cause of Death	Males	Females	Total
1 Typhoid Fever, etc.
2 Cerebro-Spinal Fever	—	—	—
3 Scarlet Fever	—	—	—
4 Whooping Cough	—	2	2
5 Diphtheria	—	—	—
6 Tuberculosis of resp. system	20	9	29
7 Other forms of Tuberculosis	2	5	7
8 Syphilitic diseases	I	1	2
9 Influenza	2	1	3
10 Measles	—	1	1
11 Ac. polio-myel & polioenceph	—	—	—
12 Ac. Inf. enceph	I	—	1
13 Cancer of b. cav & cesoph	3	4	7
14 Cancer of stomach and duodenum	12	3	15
15 Cancer of Breast	--	6	6
16 Cancer of all other sites	34	18	52
17 Diabetes	2	4	6
18 Intra-cran. vase, lesions	30	23	53
19 Heart disease	75	68	143
20 Other diseases of circ. system	6	8	H
21 Bronchitis	17	6	23
22 Pneumonia	9	3	12
23 Other resp. diseases	7	3	10
24 Ulcer of Stomach or duodenum	6		6
25 Diarrhoea under 2 years	f—	—	_
26 Appendicitis	—	2	2
27 Other digve. diseases	2	3	5
28 Nephritis	4	6	10
29 Puer. & post-abort, sepsis	—	1	1
30 Other maternal causes	——	1	1
31 Premature birth	2	3	5
32 Con. mal. birth inj. infant dis.	6	5	11.
33 Suicide	i		1
34 Road traffic accident	3	1	4
35 Other violent causes	8	2	10
36 All other causes	10	6	16
Total all causes	263	195	458