London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Friern Barnet 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Friern Barnet]
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TABLE 4.
ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSES OF AND AGES AT DEATH
| CAUSE OF DEATH. | AT AGES | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 to 1 | 1 to 2 | 2 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 to 75 | 75 and Over. | |
| Accident. | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 5 |
| Bronchitis. | 2 | 4 | 15 | 22 | |||||
| Cancer. | 1 | - | 3 | 25 | 17 | 11 | |||
| Congenital Malformation. | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Diabetes. | 1 | - | 1 | ||||||
| Diseases of heart and circulatory-system. | 2 | 47 | 84 | 173 | |||||
| Gastritis. | 1 | ||||||||
| Hyperplasia of prostate. | 1 | - | - | ||||||
| Leukaemia. | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Misadventure. | 1 | — | 1 | ||||||
| Other defined diseases. | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 9 | |||
| Other diseases of respiratory | |||||||||
| system. | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Other Tuberculosis . | 1 | ||||||||
| Pneumonia. | 1 | 3 | 9 | 21 | |||||
| Prematurity, | 2 | - | - | ||||||
| Suicide. | — | _ | — | 2 | 4 | _ | |||
| Tuberculosis(Resp) | 1 | _ | |||||||
| Ulcer of Stomach. | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| TOTAL. | 7 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 97 | 132 | 245 | ||
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