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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

Bromley 1950

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: TABLE II.Causes of Death, 1950.

TABLE II.

Causes of Death, 1950.

MaleFemaleTotal
1.Tuberculosis—Respiratory11516
2.„ other1—1
3.Syphilitic diseases426
4.Diphtheria———
5.Whooping Cough——-
6.Meningococcal Infection———
7.Acute Poliomyelitis———
8.Measles———
9.Other infective and parasitic diseases—11
10.Malignant neoplasm, stomach71118
11.Malignant neoplasm, lung bronchus13417
12.Malignant neoplasm, breast11819
13.Malignant neoplasm, uterus—1111
14.Other malignant and lymphatic neoplasms292958
15.Leukaemia, aleukaemia112
16.Diabetes437
17.Vascular lesions of nervous system3863101
18.Coronary disease, angina583593
19.Hypertension with heart disease181735
20.Other heart disease5298150
21.Other circulatory disease72229
22.Influenza—22
23.Pneumonia12820
24.Bronchitis16420
25.Other diseases of the respiratory system224
26.Ulcer of stomach or duodenum8210
27.Gastritis, enteritis and diarrhoea—33
28.Nephritis and nephrosis538
29.Hyperplasia of prostate11—11
30.Pregnancy, childbirth, abortion———
31.Congenital malformation448
32.Other defined and ill-defined diseases333669
33.Motor vehicle accidents213
34.All other accidents6410
35.Suicide437
36.Homicide and operations of war———
All causes347392739