[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley] page 3

Wembley 1943

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley]

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Causes of Deaths during the year.

1942 Total	Causes of Death.	Male	Female	Total
1,041	All causes	511	505	1,016
—	Typhoid & para-typhoid fevers	-	-	-
3	Cerebro-spinal fever	-	2	2
—	Scarlet fever	-	1	1
2	Whooping cough	-	-	-
3	Diphtheria	-	-	—
51	Tuberculosis of respiratory system	32	26	58
12	Other forms of tuberculosis	1	6	7
3	Syphilitic diseases	6	4	10
8	Influenza	11	17	28
2	Measles	1	—	1
-	Ac. polio-myel: & polio-enceph	-	-	-
—	Acute infectious enceph:	-	-	-
—	Cancer of buc: cav: & oesoph	(m) -	-	-
27	uterus	(F) 2	11	13
23	Cancer of stomach & duodenum	20	8	28
18	Cancer of breast	—	21	21
111	Cancer of all other sites	68	53	121
9	Diabetes	4	7	11
89	Intra-cranial vascular lesions	36	64	100
249	Heart disease	106	98	204
42	Other dis: of circ: system	21	23	44
56	Bronchitis	24	18	42
54	Pneumonia	36	27	63
15	Other resp: diseases	9	4	13
16	Ulcer of stomach or duodenum	6	3	9
12	Diarrhoea under 2 years	10	4	14
13	Appendicitis	3	l	4
29	Other digestive diseases	11	11	22
20	Nephritis	9	10	19
2	Puerperal & post-abort: sepsis	-	3	3
3	Other maternal causes	-	2	2
15	Prem: birth	13	8	21
32	Congenital malf: birth injury & infant diseases	16	9	25
6	Suicide	7	8	15
7	Road traffic accidents	5	5	10
27	Other violent causes	17	10	27
82	All other causes	37	41	78

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