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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 1947

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]

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8
REGISTRAR GENERAL'S ABRIDGED LIST OF CAUSES
OF DEATH.

Table: These figures are corrected for inward and outward transfers.

These figures are corrected for inward and outward transfers.

Causes of Death.Male.Female.
All causes423406
1.Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers00
2.Cerebro-spinal fever00
3.Scarlet fever00
4.Whooping cough00
5.Diphtheria00
6.Tuberculosis of respiratory system1617
7.Other forms of tuberculosis23
8.Syphilitic diseases31
9.Influenza03
10.Measles00
11.Acute polio-myelitis and polio-encephalitis10
12.Acute inf. encephalitis10
13.Cancer of buccal cavity and oesoph (M); uterus (F)66
14.Cancer of stomach and duodenum814
15.Cancer of breast013
16.Cancer of all other sites5639
17.Diabetes22
18.Intra-cranial vascular lesions4447
19.Heart diseases106123
20.Other diseases of circ. system1410
21.Bronchitis4323
22.Pneumonia2127
23.Other respiratory diseases75
24.Ulcer of stomach or duodenum102
25.Diarrhoea under 2 years5I
26.Appendicitis00
27.Other digestive diseases511
28.Nephritis1315
29.Puerperal, and post-abortion, sepsis00
30.Other maternal causes01
31.Premature birth118
32.Congenital malformation, birth injury, etc76
33.Suicide55
34.Road traffic accidents51
35.Other violent causes43
36.All other causes2820

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NOTE.—The deaths are those REGISTERED during the calendar
year. They will differ, therefore, from adjusted figures
compiled locally.