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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
Willesden 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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| Tuberculosis of other organs | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Disseminated Tuberculosis | 4 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - ' | - | 4 |
| Leprosy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Syphilis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | 4 |
| Other venereal diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Purulent infection, septicæmia | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Yellow Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Malaria | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other diseases due to protozoa | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ankylostomiasis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hydatid Cysts | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - |
| Other diseases due to helminths | -I | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - . | - | - |
| Mycoses | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other infectious or parasitic diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2.—Cancer and other Tumours. | |||||||||||||||
| Cancer of the buccal cavity, and pharynx | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | - | 10 |
| Cancer of the digestive organs and peritoneum | 158 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 8 | 29 | 44 | 51 | 21 | 1 | 96 |
| Cancer of the respiratory organs | 23 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 7 | 11 | 3 | - | - | 22 |
| Cancer of the uterus | 22 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | - | 14 |
| Cancer of other female genital organs | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | - | 7 |
| Cancer of the breast | 31 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 15 |
| Cancer of the male genito-urinary organs | 23 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | - | 21 |
| Cancer of the skin | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 |
| Cancer of other or unspecified organs | 16 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| Non-malignant tumours | 5 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 4 |
| Tumours of undetermined nature | 13 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 3.—Rheumatism, Diseases of Nutrition and of Endocrine Glands and the General Diseases. | |||||||||||||||
| Rheumatic fever | 14 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 5 | - | 1 | - | - | 14 |
| Chronic rheumatism, Osteo-Arthritis | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Gout | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diabetes | 29 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 9 | 10 | 5 | - | 21 |
| Scurvy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Beri-beri | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pellagra | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rickets | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Osteomalacia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diseases of the pituitary gland | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diseases of the thyroid and parathyroid glands | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Diseases of the thymus | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diseases of the adrenals | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Other general diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |