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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

Hendon 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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Table: CAUSES OP DEATH IN 1937.TABLE IV.

CAUSES OP DEATH IN 1937.

TABLE IV.

Cause of Death.M.F.
All Causes618673
1. Typhoid Fever, etc.--_
2. Measles-2
3. Scarlet Fever——
4. Whooping Cough2-
5. Diphtheria43
6. Influenza2825
7. Encephalitis Lethargica—-
8. Cerebro-spinal Fever11
9. Respiratory Tuberculosis3125
10. Other Tuberculosis75
11. Syphilis—1
12. General Paralysis of the Insane, etc42
13. Cancer84127
14. Diabetes43
15. Cerebral Haemorrhage1928
16. Heart Disease134153
17. Aneurysm3-
18. Other Circulatory Diseases2635
19. Bronchitis2214
20. Pneumonia4427
21. Other Respiratory Diseases—7
22. Peptic Ulcer02
23. Diarrhoea, etc. (under 2 years)1110
24. Appendicitis83
25. Cirrhosis of Liver23
26. Other Liver Diseases13
27. Other Digestive Diseases816
28. Nephritis2218
29. Puerperal Sepsis—1
30. Other Puerperal causes—4
31. Congenital causes2318
32. Senility1530
33. Suicide1410
34. Other violence3429
35. Other defined causes6268
36. Ill-defined causes——
Special causes (included in No. 35):—
Smallpox——
Poliomyelitis1—
Polioencephalitis——
Diarrhoea (2 years and over)——