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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

Romford 1947

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford]

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Table: TABLE 2.

TABLE 2.

Causes of DeathAll agesDeaths at the subjoined ages of Residents, after correction for Inward and Outward Transfers.
M.F.TotalUnder 112-45-1415-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465-7475 & upwards
1. Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers..........................................
2. Cerebro-spinal Fever..........................................
3. Scarlet Fever..........................................
4. Whooping Cough1122..............................
6. Diphtheria.........................................
6. Tuberculosis of Respiratory System20929............451162...1
7. Other forms of Tuberculosis112.........11..................
8. Syphilitic disease...14.....................1111
9. Influenza112........................11...
10. Measles..........................................
11. Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis2...2.........1...1...............
12. Acute infectious Encephalitis...11........................1......
13.M Cancer of Buccal Cavity, etc.3...3...........................12
13.F Cancer of Uterus...55.....................131...
14. Canccr of Stomach and Duodenum9918.....................5569
15. Cancer of Breast...1414..................]2...71
16. Cancer of all other sites393473...............1211232016
17. Diabetes268......1......2.........41
18. Intra cranial Vascular Lesions314677...............1...2112934
19. Heart Disease9699195............22313235894
20. Other Diseases of the Circulatory System131023.....................22910
21. Bronchitis23224511.........2237821
22. Pneumonia1315287...2...1112167
23. Other Respiratory24
Diseases549...............111123
21. Ulceration of the Stomach or Duodenum5...5..................11...12
25. Diarrhoea22431...........................
26. Appendicitis..........................................
27. Other digestive dis eases58132..................2...36
28. Nephritis5611.....................1127
29. Puerperal Sepsis..........................................
30. Other Maternal causes...11..................1............
31. Premature Birth4599..............................
32. Congenital Malformations and Birth injuries9716131......1...1............
33. Suicide235............11......12...
34. Road Traffic Accidents314.........11...1......1...
35. Other violent causes76131......1214...112
36. All other causes2422461...1223138421
Total328339667393461521305692167234