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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 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]

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

REGISTRAR GENERAL'S ABRIDGED LIST OF CAUSES

OF DEATH.

These figures are corrected for inward and outward transfers.

Causes of Death.Male.Female.
All causes406414
1.Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers00
2.Cerebro-spinal fever00
3.Scarlet fever00
4.Whooping Cough11
5.Diphtheria01
6.Tuberculosis of respiratory system2611
7.Other forms of tuberculosis25
8.Syphilitic diseases10
9.Influenza10
10.Measles10
11.Acute polio-myelitis and polio-encephalitis01
12.Acute inf. encephalitis00
13.Cancer of buccal cavity and oesoph (M); uterus (F)73
14.Cancer of stomach and duodenum146
15.Cancer of breast018
16.Cancer of all other sites5239
17.Diabetes15
18.Intra -cranial vascular lesions3955
19.Heart diseases123127
20.Other diseases of circ. system1017
21.Bronchitis1719
22.Pneumonia1812
23.Other respiratory diseases63
24.Ulcer of stomach or duodenum61
25.Diarrhoea under 2 years52
26.Appendicitis22
27.Other digestive diseases410
28.Nephritis67
29.Puerperal, and post-abortion, sepsis01
30.Other maternal causes02
31.Premature birth66
32.Congenital malformation, birth injury, etc.916
33.Suicide62
34.Road traffic accidents61
35.Other violent causes86
36.All other causes2935
NOTE. -The deaths are those REGISTERED during the calendar year. They will differ, therefore, from adjusted figures compiled locally.