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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 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford]
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Crude Death Rate per 1,000 Estimated Population 7.6.
Adjusted Death Rate (Comparability Factor 1.56)= 12.0.
60 deaths of residents of Romford were due to Lung Cancer.
51 of these were male and 9 were female.
The deaths of 139 persons were ascribed to Bronchitis and
other allied respiratory diseases.
Accidents accounted for 29 deaths during the year, 21 males
and 8 females. This total, includes the deaths of 14 male and 5
females resulting from motor vehicle accidents.
Eight male and four females committed suicide, compared with
a total of four in 1962.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES The following notifications were received during the year:—
| Notifications | Deaths | |
|---|---|---|
| Pneumonia | 7 | 61 |
| Tuberculosis: Respiratory | 31 | 6 |
| Non-Respiratory | 1 | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 37 | — |
| Dysentery | 224 | — |
| Puerpeial Pyrexia | 2 | — |
| Measles | 1,088 | — |
| Whooping Cough | 109 | — |
| Food Poisoning | 560 | — |
| Erysipelas | 2 | — |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis—Non-Paralytic | — | — |
| Diphtheria | — | — |
| Ophthaimia Neonatorum | 2 | — |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | — | — |
Measles
Of the 1,088 cases of measles, half were notified in the first
quarter of the year, being a continuation of the rise in notifications
which commenced in June of the previous year. Practically all the
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