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 Kingston-upon-Thames]
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Causes of Death
TABLE IV
1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M | P | M | F | M | F. | M. | F | M | F. | |
All Causes | 250 | 250 | 215 | 276 | 277 | 279 | 254 | 245 | 240 | 225 |
Tuberculosiss respiratory | 4 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
Tuberculosis, other. | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 |
Syphilitic disease | 5 | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
Whooping cough | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Meningococcal infections | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Acute poliomyelitis | 1 | 2 | - | - | — | — | - | - | - | — |
Measles | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | -= | 1 | - |
Other infective and parasitic disease | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 |
Malignant neoplasm, stomach | 10 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 4 | - | 4 |
Malignant neoplasm, lung, bronchus | 8 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 13 | 2 | ||
Malignant neoplasm, uterus | - | 7 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 3 | ||
- | 13 | - | 10 | - | 10 | - | 7 | - | 10 | |
20 | 17 | 19 | 24 | 29 | 20 | 25 | 34 | |||
Leukaemia, aleukaemia | - | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | ||
Diabates | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 4 | - | 2 |
Vascular lesions of nervous systsm | 18 | 29 | 18 | 47 | 29 | 39 | 27 | 39 | 26 | 35 |
Coronary disease, angina Hypertension with heart disease | 66 | 81 | 31 8 | 23 12 | 46 11 | 25 14 | 29 12 | 31 3 | 43 4 | 18 8 |
Other heart disease | 21 | 41 | 36 | 41 | 28 | 37 | 16 | 31 | ||
Other circulatory disease | 11 | 20 | 14 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 20 | 22 | 11 |
Influenza | - | 4 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | ||
Pneumonia | 12 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 16 | 26 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 10 |
Br onohitis | 23 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 24 | 5 | 29 | 19 | 16 | 15 |
Other diseases of respiratory system | 5 | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Ulcer of stomach and duodenum | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 6 | - |
Gastritis, enteritis, and diarrhoea | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 |
Nephritis and nephrosis | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | - |
Hyperplasia of prostate | 7 | - | 4 | - | 2 | - | 8 | - | ||
Pregnancy, childbirth, abort ion | - | - | - | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Congenital malformations | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | - | 2 | - |
Other defined and ill-defined diseases | 22 | 31 | 14 | 27 | 15 | 22 | 14 | 18 | ||
Motor vehicle accidents | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 3 | - | 3 | - |
All other accidents | 4 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | - |
Suicide | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Homicide and operations of war | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Separate figures not available for the year
1949 owing to different classifications being
in use prior to 1950.