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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
Harrow 1972
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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TABLE IV
Causes of Deaths (Males) at various ages, 1972
Causes of Death
All
Ages
Under
4
Weeks
1
Month
to
1 year
1-
5-
15-
25-
35-
45-
55-
65-
75-
1 B.l
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2 B.2
Typhoid Fever
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3 B.3
Bacillary Dysentery & Amoe-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4 B.4
Enteritis & Other Diarrhoeal
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Diseases
1
_
—
1
_
_
_
-
_
-
_
5 B.5
Tuberculosis of Respiratory
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
6 B.6
(1) Late effects of Tuberculosis
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
(2) Other Tuberculosis
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 B.7
Plague
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9 B.8
Diphtheria
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
10 B.9
Whooping Cough
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
11 B.1O
Streptococcal Sore Throat &
Scarlet Fever
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
12 B.ll
Meningococcal Infection
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
13 B.12
Acute Poliomyelitis
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
14 B.13
Smallpox
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
15 B.14
Measles
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 B.15
Typhus & Other Rickettsioses
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
17 B.16
Malaria
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
-
18 B.17
Syphilis and its Sequelae . .
19 B.18
All Other Infective and Parasitic
Diseases
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
20 B.19
(1) Malignant Neoplasm,
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
1
-
21 B.19
(2) Malignant Neoplasm,
Oesophagus
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
1
2
22 B.19
(3) Malignant Neoplasm,
Stomach
23
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
8
8
5
23 B.19
(4) Malignant Neoplasm,
Intestine
28
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
4
6
12
5
24 B.19
(5) Malignant Neoplasm,
Larynx
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
_
25 B.19
(6) Malignant Neoplasm,
Lung, Bronchus
96
-
-
-
-
1
-
9
23
44
19
26 B.19
(7) Malignant Neoplasm,
Breast
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
27 B.19
(8) Malignant Neoplasm
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
28 B.19
(9) Malignant Neoplasm,
Prostate
14
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
5
8
29 B.19
(10) Leukaemia
4
_
_
_
1
_
_
_
1
-
-
2
30 B.19
(11) Other Malignant
Neoplasms
60
-
-
-
3
-
3
3
3
16
19
13
31 B.20
Benign & Unspecified Neoplasms
8
-
-
-
-
1-
1
-
1
5
-
32 B.21
Diabetes Mellitus
3
_
_
_
_
_
_
1
_
_
—
2
33 B.22
Avitaminoses & Other Nutritional
Deficiency
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
34 B.46
(1) Other Endocrine, Nutri
tional & Metabolic
Diseases
4
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
35 B.23
Anaemias
1
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
1
-
36 B.46
(2) Other Diseases of Blood
& Blood-forming Organs
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
l
-
Carried forward
254
1
-
1
5
1
5
5
19
58
99
60