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 Ilford]
This page requires JavaScript
The following is the Registrar-General's Short List of Deaths and Causes
Table III, on page 24, differs very slightly from the Registrar-General's Short List, and has been prepared on the lines of previous Annual Reports:—
Causes of Death. | M. | F. | |
---|---|---|---|
All Causes. | 592 | 602 | |
1. | Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers | — | - |
2. | Measles | — | - |
3. | Scarlet fever | 1 | - |
4. | Whooping cough | 2 | 2 |
5. | Diphtheria | 2 | 2 |
6. | Influenza | 14 | 31 |
7. | Encephalitis lethargica | — | — |
8. | Cerebro-spinal fever | 6 | 1 |
9. | Tuberculosis of respiratory system | 48 | 39 |
10. | Other tuberculous diseases | 4 | 4 |
11. | Syphilis | 3 | 1 |
12. | General paralysis of the insane, tabes dorsal is .. | 3 | - |
13. | Cancer, malignant disease | 71 | 95 |
14. | Diabetes | 5 | 11 |
15. | Cerebral haemorrhage | 26 | 42 |
16. | Heart disease | 108 | 145 |
17. | Aneurysm | 3 | 3 |
18. | Other circulatory diseases | 21 | 21 |
19. | Bronchitis | 30 | 27 |
20. | Pneumonia (all forms) | 41 | 39 |
21. | Other respiratory diseases | 9 | 9 |
22. | Peptic ulcer | 7 | 1 |
23. | Diarrhoea, etc. (under 2 years) | 4 | 2 |
24. | Appendicitis | 4 | 5 |
25. | Cirrhosis of liver | 1 | 2 |
26. | Other diseases of liver, etc. | 1 | 8 |
27. | Other digestive diseases | 18 | 13 |
28. | Acute and chronic nephritis | 16 | 1 |
29. | Puerperal sepsis | — | 6 |
30. | Other puerperal causes | — | 1 |
31. | Congenital debility, premature birth, malformations, etc. | 46 | 23 |
32. | Senility | 8 | 13 |
33. | Suicide | 9 | 3 |
34. | Other violence | 35 | 1 |
35. | Other defined diseases | 44 | 51 |
36. | Causes ill-defined or unknown | 2 | — |
Special Causes (included in No. 35 above):— Smallpox | - | - | |
Poliomyelitis | — | — | |
Polioencephalitis | - | - |