[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith] page 15

Erith 1958

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith]

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A (4)g Table showing Summary of Causes of Death during the year ended 31st December, 1958

Cause of Death		Males	Females	Total
1	Tuberculosis, Respiratory	4	-	4
2	Tuberculosis, Other forms	-	-	-
3	Syphilitic diseases	-	1	1
4	Diphtheria	-	-	-
5	Whooping Cough	-	-	-
6	Meningococcal Infection	-	-	-
7	Acute Poliomyelitis	-	-	-
8	Measles	-	-	-
9	Other infective and parasitic diseases	1	1	2
10	Malignant neoplasm, stomach	7	6	13
11	Malignant neoplasm, lung, bronchus	20	2	22
12	Malignant neoplasm, breast	-	8	8
13	Malignant neoplasm, uterus	-	4	4
14	Other malignant and lymphatic neoplasms	40	24	64
15	Leukaemia, Aleukaemia	2	3	5
16	Diabetes	1	2	3
17	Vascular lesions of nervous system	25	26	51
18	Coronary disease, angina	45	31	76
19	Hypertension with heart disease	11	8	19
20	Other heart diseases	30	41	71
21	Other circulatory diseases	13	11	24
22	Influenza	2	-	2
23	Pneumonia	15	10	25
24	Bronchitis	23	11	34
25	Other diseases of respiratory system	4	1	5
26	Ulcer of stomach and duodenum	3	2	5
27	Gastritis, enteritis and diarrhoea	-	-	-
28	Nephritis and Nephrosis	6	4	10
29	Hyperplasia of prostate	2	-	2
20	Pregnancy, Childbirth and abortion	-	1	1
31	Congenital Malformations	-	2	2
32	Other defined and ill-defined diseases	13	20	33
33	Motor vehicle accidents	4	1	5
34	All other accidents	6	4	10
35	Suicide	5	-	5
36	Homicide and operations of war	-	-	-
Total all causes		282	224	506