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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

Hornchurch 1946

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]

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Table: TABLE 2.REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S ABRIDGED LIST OF CAUSES OF DEATH.These figures are corrected for outward and inward transfers.

TABLE 2.

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S ABRIDGED LIST OF CAUSES OF DEATH.

These figures are corrected for outward and inward transfers.

Causes of Death.Male.Female.
All causes461405
1. Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers00
2. Cerebro-spinal fever21
3. Scarlet fever00
4. Whooping cough00
5. Diphtheria00
6. Tuberculosis of respiratory system2917
7. Other forms of tuberculosis41
8. Syphilitic diseases40
9. Influenza53
10. Measles00
11. Acute polio-myelitis and polio-encephalitis21
12. Acute inf. encephalitis20
13. Cancer of buc., cav., and oesoph, (M) uterus (F)43
14. Cancer of stomach and duodenum1311
15. Cancer of breast023
16. Cancer of all other sites4944
17. Diabetes40
18. Intra-cranial vascular lesions3148
19. Heart disease11292
20. Other diseases of circulatory system1617
21. Bronchitis3116
22. Pneumonia1722
23. Other respiratory diseases74
24. Ulcer of stomach or duodenum61
25. Diarrhoea under 2 years92
26. Appendicitis42
27. Other digestive diseases710
28. Nephritis144
29. Puerperal, and post-abortion, sepsig01
30.' Other maternal causes04
31. Premature birth104
32. Congenital malformation, birth injury, etc.2515
33. Suicide48
34. Road traffic accidents36
35. Other violent causes74
36. All other causes4041