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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
East Ham 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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DEATHS IN WARDS - 1942.
| Cause of Be at h. | Mancr Park | Little Dfrrti | Wood-j grange | Pla-shet | Ken-sington. | Castle. | Central. | Wall End. | Greatfield | South | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.Typhoid and para-typhoid Fevers. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2»Cerebro-Spinal Fever. | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| 3.Soarlet Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 4 .Whooping Cough | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5.Diphtheria | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 6.Tuberculosis of Respiratory System | 4 | 11 | 7 | - | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | - | 53 |
| 7.Other forms of Tuberculosis | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 15 |
| 8.Syphilitic diseases. | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 7 |
| 9oInfluenza. | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 10,Measlea | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | — | - | 2 |
| 11 .Acute Poliomyelitis & polioencephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 12. Acute infective encephalitis | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 5 |
| 13. Canoer of buccal cavity and oseophagus (M) uterus (F) | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 24 |
| 14.Cancer of Stomach & duodenum | 4 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 52 |
| 15.Cancer of Breast | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| 16.Cancer Of all other sites | 14 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 21 | 14 | 13 | 128 |
| 17.Diabetes | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| 19.Intracranial vascular lesions. | 13 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 116 |
| 19. He art Disease | 30 | 21 | 29 | 27 | 21 | 23 | 34 | 26 | 24 | 27 | 262 |
| 20.other Diseases of circulatory system | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 35 | |
| 21.Bronchitis | 7 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 71 |
| 22.Pneumonia | 5 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 55 |
| 23.Other respiratory diseases | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 16 |
| 24. Ulcer ofSfcanach & duodenum | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 25.Diarrhoea under 2 years | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 13 |
| 26.Appendicitis | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 7 |
| 27. Other digestive Diseases. | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | - | 3 | 1 | 23 |
| 28.Nephritis. | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 28 |
| 29.Puerperal and Post-abortive sepsis. | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| 30.Other maternal causes. | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 4 |
| Sl.Premture Birth | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 31 18 |
| 32-.Congenital Malformations, birth injury infantile diseases. | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| 33.Suicide. | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 8 14 17 105 |
| 34.Road Traffic accidents. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| 35. Other violent causes. | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| 36.All other causes | 11 | 18 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 9 | S | 9 | |
| TOTALS: | 131 | 140 | 126 | 101. | 93 | 121 | 133 | 116 | 99 | 97 | 1,157 |