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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Woolwich 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE II a.— continued.
| Causes of Death. | Male. | Female. | Woolwich. | Plumstead. | Eltham. | Deaths in Public Institutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Borough. | Outlying Institutions. | ||||||||
| West. | East. | ||||||||
| Residents. | Non-Residents. | ||||||||
| Organic Heart Disease | 82 | 80 | 43 | 48 | 51 | 20 | 23 | 9 | 13 |
| Bronchitis | 47 | 54 | 32 | 27 | 30 | 12 | 19 | 6 | 4 |
| Pneumonia (all forms) | 59 | 38 | 34 | 25 | 24 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 9 |
| Other respiratory diseases | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | .. | .. | 2 |
| Diarrhoea, &c. | 16 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Appendicitis and Typhlitis | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| Cirrhosis of Liver | 5 | 1 | 3 | .. | 1 | 2 | 3 | .. | .. |
| Alcoholism | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. |
| Nephritis and Bright's Disease | 26 | 19 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 3 | 3 |
| Puerperal Fever | .. | 5 | .. | .. | 3 | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 |
| Parturition, apart from Puerperal Fever | .. | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Congenital Debility, &c. | 63 | 41 | 35 | 26 | 24 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 13 |
| Violence, apart from Suicide | 33 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 9 |
| Suicide | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |
| Other Defined Diseases | 209 | 172 | 104 | 112 | 110 | 55 | 106 | 36 | 73 |
| Causes ill-defined or unknown | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. |