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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CAUSES OP DEATH WITH AGE DISTRIBUTION.
CAUSES OF DEATH | AGES | SEX | Total deaths due to each cause | ||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under 1 | 1 to 2 | 2 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 55 | 55 to 65 | 65 to 75 | 75 to 85 | 85 and upwards | Male | Female | ||
1 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
2 Cerebro-spinal fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
3 Scarlet fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
4 Whooping Cough | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
5 Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
6 Tuberculosis of respiratory system | - | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | - | 17 | 16 | 33 | |||
7 Other forms of T.B. | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 5 |
8 Syphilitic disease | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 4 |
9 Influenza | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | 2 | 6 |
10 Measles | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
11 Acute poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | ||||
12 Acute infectious encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
13 Buccal cavity oesophagus (M.) uterus (F.) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | - | 7 | 3 | 10 |
14 Cancer of stomach and duodenum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 26 |
15 Cancer of Breast | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 11 | 11 |
16 Cancer of all other sites | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 13 | 2 | 44 | 20 | 64 |
17 Diabetes | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
18 Intracranial vascular lesions | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 14 | 26 | 40 | |
19 Heart disease | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 56 | 51 | 14 | 74 | 83 | 157 |
20 Other diseases of the circulatory system | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 22 | |||
21 Bronchitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 8 | 22 | 13 | 10 | 31 | 25 | 56 |
22 Pneumonia | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 26 | |
23 Other respiratory disease | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
24 Ulceration of stomach and duodenum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 5 | 1 | 6 |
25 Diarrhoea (under 2) | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
26 Appendicitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
27 Other digestive diseases | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | |
28 Nephritis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
29 Puerperal and postabortive sepsis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
30 Other maternal causes. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
31 Premature birth | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 6 | 10 |
32 Congenital malformations and birth injury | 13 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 9 | 9 | 18 | ||
33 Suicide | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
34 Road traffic accidents. | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||
35 Other violent causes | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | |||||
36 All other causes | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 21 | 18 | 39 |
Total Deaths (all causes) | 33 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 23 | 48 | 83 | 181 | 142 | 41 | 297 | 296 | 593 |