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 Leyton]
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The following list shows the increase or decrease in the number of deaths from the various causes in 1937 as compared with 1936:—
Decrease. | Increase. | |
---|---|---|
— | + | |
Typhoid Fever | - | 1 |
Measles | 22 | - |
Scarlet fever | 2 | - |
Diphtheria | 4 | - |
Influenza | 38 | |
Encephalitis lethargica | - | 3 |
Cerebro-spinal fever | 1 | - |
Tuberculosis of respiratory system | 1 | - |
Other tuberculous diseases | 5 | - |
General paralysis of the insane | 5 | - |
Cancer | 9 | - |
Diabetes | - | 5 |
Cerebral hæmorrhage | - | 11 |
Heart disease | - | 36 |
Aneurysm | 7 | - |
Other circulatory diseases | 15 | - |
Bronchitis | - | 19 |
Pneumonia | 4 | - |
Other respiratory diseases | - | 7 |
Peptic ulcer | 2 | - |
Diarrhoea | - | 1 |
Appendicitis | - | 4 |
Other diseases of liver | 12 | - |
Other digestive diseases | - | 1 |
Acute and chronic nephritis | 5 | - |
Other puerperal causes | - | 1 |
Congenital debility, premature birth, malformations, etc. | - | 4 |
Senility | - | 10 |
Suicide | - | 6 |
Other defined causes | - | 26 |
Causes ill-defined | 2 | - |
96 | 173 | |
= + | 77 |