[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley] page 63

Bromley 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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TABLE III. Causes of Death.

	1952	1953	19G4	1956	Male	1966 Female	Total
1. Tuberculosis—Respiratory	11	8	7	5	—	1	1
2. „ Other	—	1	1	—	—	—	—
3. Syphilitic diseases	3	1	4	1	2	1	3
4. Diphtheria	—	—	—	—	—	—	_
5. Whooping Cough	—	—	—	—	—	—	_
6. Meningococcal Infections	—	1	—	—	1	1	2
7. Acute Poliomyelitis	1	—	—	1	—	_	—
8. Measles	—	—	—	—	—	_	—
9. Other infective and parasiticdiseases	1	1	2	1	1	1	2
10. Malignant neoplasm, stomach	24	21	12	16	9	11	20
11. Malignant neoplasm, lungbronchus	14	29	28	25	28	9	37
12. Malignant neoplasm, breast	11	20	18	13	—	14	14
13. Malignant neoplasm, uterus	3	6	6	4	—	2	2
14. Other malignant and lymphatic neoplasms	62	78	65	61	46	31	77
15. Leukaemia, Aleukaemia	4	3	9	6	4	4	8
16. Diabetes	3	7	4	5	3	1	4
17. Vascular lesions of nervoussystem	102	86	94	113	30	70	101
18. Coronary disease, angina	104	116	125	112	92	59	151
19. Hypertension with heart disease	13	16	18	12	10	12	22
20. Other heart disease	143	102	103	107	27	62	89
21. Other circulatory diseases	44	25	41	41	20	27	47
22. Influenza	—	7	1	—	—	2	2
23. Pneumonia	30	22	34	44	16	17	33
24. Bronchitis	39	30	28	39	26	6	32
25. Other diseases of respiratorysystem	6	7	9	6	4	4	8
26. Ulcer of stomach and duodenum	9	4	11	8	5	3	8
27. Gastritis, enteritis & diarrhœa	1	4	3	4	2	5	7
28. Nephritis and nephrosis	5	7	4	5	—	4	4
29. Hyperplasia of prostate	11	3	11	7	7	—	7
30. Pregnancy, childbirth, abortion	—	—	—	—	—	1	1
31. Congenital malformations	10	7	8	7	6	2	8
32. Other defined and ill-defineddiseases	47	62	65	80	25	26	51
33. Motor vehicle accidents	5	5	5	4	4	3	7
34. All other accidents	8	8	7	7	5	1	6
35. Suicide	6	5	7	7	8	3	11
36. Homicide and operations of war	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	720	692	727	741	381	384	765