Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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The main alterations in numbers compared with 1936 were as follows:—
Table No. 16
Increase. | Decrease. | Total deaths for 1937. | |
---|---|---|---|
Measles | - | 39 | 2 |
Influenza | 18 | - | 28 |
Tuberculosis (respiratory) | 23 | - | 73 |
Cancer | - | 9 | 133 |
Cerebral haemorrhage | - | 19 | 33 |
Pneumonia | - | 14 | 91 |
Diarrhoea, etc. | - | 18 | 13 |
Senility | - | 12 | 14 |
The ward death rates given in Table No. 15 show no very unusual features.
The particulars regarding deaths from tuberculosis are given in the section of
this report devoted to that disease.
The following table shows the age.grouping of the deaths from all causes:—
Table No. 17
Age. | 0- | 1- | 2- | 5- | 15- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | 75- | All ages. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of deaths | 66 | 11 | 10 | 22 | 36 | 42 | 65 | 102 | 177 | 234 | 261 | 1,026 |
Percentage | 6.43 | 1.07 | 0.97 | 2.14 | 3.51 | 4.09 | 6.34 | 9.94 | 17.25 | 22.81 | 25.44 |