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Stepney 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table: Causes of, and Ages at Death during the year1920.Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Causes of, and Ages at Death during the year1920.

Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Causes of Death.Under 1 year.1 and under 2 years.2 and under 6 years.5 and under 15 years.15 and under 25 years.25 and under 45 years.45 and under 65 years.65 andupwards.All ages.
Enteric Fever....11..1....3
Small Pox................
Measles1512165........48
Scarlet Fever12741......15
Wbooping Cough..2632124.........74
Diphtheria aud all deaths from Croup (except "Spasmodic," "False," " Stridulous " and " Catarrhal ")69111238
Influenza72..410323427116
Erysipelas..........2..13
Cerebro-Spinal Fever41..1.........7
Typhus Fever.................
Continued Fever..............
Dysentery........112
Glanders• •..............
Anthrax• t..............
Lead Poisoning• •• •..........
Phthisis (pulmonary tuberculosis)13153811310418283
Tuberculous Meningitis (Acute Hydrocephalus)737922....30
Other Tuberculous Diseases2214143320
Rheumatic Fever....8121..12
Cancer, malignant disease (Sarcoma, Rodent Uloer, &c.)..111..2412394244
Bronchitis4543..216136158364
Broncho-Pneumonia135602241172825292
Pneumonia (all other forms)3015171216585838244
Other diseases of respiratory organs1..2..138722
Diarrhoea and Enteritis (all deaths from diarrhoea, except those secondary to some well-defined disease)7752......2389
Appendicitis and Typhlitis.... .38445125
Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens, Acute and Chronic Alcoholism (but not those from Organic Disease due to Alcoholism)............22
Cirrhosis of Liver..1......214219
Nephritis and Bright's Disease..1..25205321102
Puerperal Fever (Pyæmia, Septicæmia, Pelvic Peritonitis, Peri- and Endo-Metritis occurring in the Puerperium)........17....8
Other accidents and diseases of Pregnancy and
Parturition18......114....33
Congenital Debility and Malformation, including Premature Birth, Atrophy, Marasmus, want of Breast Milk, but not from Atelectasis2411............242
Violent Deaths, excluding Suicide72101510293932144
Suicides.........2510320
Heart Disease2..3122038118119312
Old Age............8128136
Other Defined Diseases34513232585163159507
Diseases ill-defined or unknown433....1....11
Encephalitis Lethargica..11721..12
Totals .. ..6631651361351484819118403,479

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