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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 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford]
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DEATHS
Causes of Death in 1960 Total
Tuberculosis and other Infectious Diseases
Cancer and other Malignant Diseases 165
Diseases of the Brain and Nervous System 102
Diseases of the Heart and Circulatory System 272
Pneumonia, Bronchitis and other Respiratory Diseases
(excluding T.B.) 87
Diseases of the Stomach and Digestive System 9
Accidents, Poisonings and Violence 39
Infant Deaths and Congenital Malformations 42
Other causes 66
Total 790
Crude Death Rate per 1,000 Estimated Population 5.93.
Adjusted Death Rate (Comparability Factor 1.56)=9.2.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES The following notifications were received during the year:—
| Notifications | Deaths | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pneumonia | 18 | 36 | ||
| Tuberculosis: Respiratory | 50 | 54 | 6 | 7 |
| Non-Respiratory | 4 | 1 | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 145 | — | ||
| Dysentry | 729 | — | ||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | — | ||
| Measles | 194 | — | ||
| Whooping Cough | 386 | — | ||
| Food Poisoning | 223 | |||
| Erysipelas | 7 | — | ||
| Scabies | — | — | ||
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | — | ||
| Poliomyelitis | — | 1 | ||
| Diphtheria | — | - | ||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | - | ||
| Paratyphoid Fever | — | — | ||
Infectious Diseases
Immunisation against Diphtheria was introduced in Romford in
1935, a year in which 169 notified cases of the disease occurred which
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