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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 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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| Constipation | 1 |
| Gastro Enteritis | 11 |
| Glandular Fever | 1 |
| Idiopathic Epilepsy | 1 |
| Influenzal Chill | 1 |
| Mal feeding | 1 |
| Marasmus | 1 |
| Measles | 19 |
| Mitral Stenosis | 1 |
| Mumps | 2 |
| Nervous Dyspepsia | 1 |
| No disease | 9 |
| Post tonsillectomy | 1 |
| Rubella | |
| Sonne Dysentery | 1 |
| Spinal Abscess | 1 |
| Tuberculous Meningitis | 1 |
| Urticaria | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 24 |
| Total | 256 |
Cancer.
Cancer deaths, 1947 :—
| Total Deaths | ... | ... | ... | 236 |
| Male | ... | ... | ... | 119 |
| Female | ... | ... | ... | 117 |
| 1947 | 1946 | 1945 | 1944 | |
| Carcinoma | 214 | 209 | 191 | 196 |
| Sarcoma | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Rodent Ulcer | — | — | — | 1 |
| Epithelioma | 2 | 2 | 4 | — |
| Endothelioma | — | — | — | 1 |
| Glio- blastoma | 1 | 3 | — | — |
| Chloroma | 1 | — | — | — |
| Hyponephroma | 1 | — | — | — |
| Papilloma | 1 | — | — | — |
| Unstated | 14 | 9 | 7 | 3 |
| Totals | 236 | 225 | 206 | 203 |