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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 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 12.—
| Causes of Death. | Male. | Female. | Woolwich. | Pluinstead. | Eltham. | Deaths in Public Institutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West. | East. | In Borough. | |||||||
| Residents. | Non-Residents. | Outlying Institutions. | |||||||
| Heart disease | 129 | 126 | 77 | 74 | eo | 92 | 12 | 22 | |
| Arterio-sclerosis | 36 | 28 | 9 | 24 | 9 | 22 | 7 | ... | 13 |
| Bronchitis | 60 | 53 | 27 | 36 | 32 | 18 | 23 | 3 | 9 |
| Pneumonia (all formS) | 33 | 38 | 21 | 16 | 21 | 13 | 26 | 8 | 8 |
| Other respiratory diseases | 7 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | ... | 1 |
| Ulcer of stomach or duodenum | 15 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| Diarrhoea, &c. | 7 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Appendicitis and typhlitis | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | ... | 9 | 4 | 1 |
| Cirrhosis of liver | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ... | 3 | ... | ... |
| Acute and chronic nephritis | 24 | 15 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 15 |
| Puerperal sepsis | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Other accidents and diseases of pregnancy and parturition | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Congenital debility and malformation, premature birth | 29 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 10 |
| Suicide | 24 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 |
| Other deaths from violence | 36 | 17 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 18 |
| Other defined diseases | 159 | 125 | 70 | 101 | 66 | 47 | 121 | 22 | 67 |
| Causes ill-defined or unknown | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |