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Stepney 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table: Causes of, and Ages at Death during the Year, 1925.Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Causes of, and Ages at Death during the Year, 1925.

Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Causes of Death.Under 1 year.1 and under 2 years.2 and under 5 years.5 and under 15 years15 and under 25 years.25 and under 45 years.4-5 and under 65 years.65 and upwards.All Ages.
Enteric Fever...........................
Small Pox...........................
Measles311122............28
Scarlet Fever...2132.........8
Whooping Cough292611268
Diphtheria and all deaths from Croup (except "spasmodic" "false" "stridulous" and "catarrhal")...798............24
Influenza.........114111330
Erysipelas.........2......316
Cerebro-Spinal Fever...........................
Typhus Fever...........................
Continued Fever...........................
Dysentery...........................
Glanders...........................
Anthrax...........................
Lead Poisoning...........................
Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis)1...26641059122291
Tuberculous Meningitis (Acute Hydrocephalus)516332......20
Other Tuberculous Diseases2743574133
Rheumatic Fever.........21.........3
Cancer, malignant disease (Sarcoma, Rodent Ulcer, etc.)............330142123298
Bronchitis10941317139175358
Broncho-Pneumonia61361442103842207
Pneumonia (all other forms)126265235627137
Other diseases of Respiratory Organs...1...2...36416
Diarrhoea and Enteritis (all deaths from Diarrhoea, except those secondary to some well defined disease)961521............114
Appendicitis and Typhlitis.........8453222
Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens, acute and chronic alcoholism (but not those from organic disease due to alcoholism)..................1...1
Cirrhosis of Liver............116513
Nephritis and Bright's Disease...12112432584
Puerperal Fever (Pyaemia, Septicaemia, Sapraemia, Pelvic Peritonitis,Peri- and Endo-Metritis occurring in the Puerperium)............321...6
Other accidents and diseases of Pregnancy and Parturition12.........29......23
Congenital Debility and Malformation, including Premature Birth, Atrophy, Marasmus, want of Breast Milk, but not from Atelectasis130.....................130
Violent Deaths, excluding Suicide81719314172493
Suicides............3410219
Heart Disease11161840115119301
Old Age..................2141143
Other Defined Diseases24610132161193236564
Diseases ill-defined or unknown31............116
Encephalitis Lethargica.........2522...11
Total39713185_ 961503518849633,057