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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
Ilford 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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Registrar-General's Short List of Deaths and Causes:— TABLE II.
Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1949.
| Causes of Death | Net Deaths at the subjoined ages of "Residents," whether occurring within or without the District | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Ages | Under 1 year | 1 and under 2 years | 2 and under 5 years | 5 and under 15 years | 15 and under 25 years | 25 and under 35 years | 35 and under 45 years | 45 and under 55 years | 55 and under 65 years | 65 and under 75 years | 75 years and upwards | ||
| ALL CAUSES | 1,728 | 53 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 36 | 69 | 144 | 290 | 445 | 656 | |
| 1 | Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2 | Cerebro-Spinal fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 3 | Scarlet fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 4 | Whooping cough | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 | Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 6 | Tuberculosis of respiratory system | 48 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| 7 | Other forms of tuberculosis | 5 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 8 | Syphilitic disease | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| 9 | Influenza | 18 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 10 | Measles | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 11 | Acute Poliomyelitis and polio encephalitis | 4 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 12 | Acute infectious encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 13 | Cancer of buccal cavity and oesophagus (males only) | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | - |
| Cancer of uterus (females only) | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | |
| 14 | Cancer of stomach and duo denum | 43 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 16 |
| 15 | Cancer of breast | 36 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 9 |
| 16 | Cancer of all other sites | 220 | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 10 | 32 | 50 | 62 | 60 |
| 17 | Diabetes | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 |
| 18 | Intra-cranial vascular lesions | 220 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | 34 | 66 | 101 |
| 19 | Heart disease | 552 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 9 | 29 | 90 | 165 | 256 |
| 20 | Other diseases of the circula tory system | 79 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 12 | 25 | 38 |
| 21 | Bronchitis | 95 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 25 | 45 |
| 22 | Pneumonia | 62 | 10 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 23 |
| 23 | Other respiratory diseases | 24 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 8 | 8 | 4 |
| 24 | Ulceration of the stomach or duodenum | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
| 25 | Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 26 | Appendicitis | 4 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 27 | Other digestive diseases | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | 7 | 14 |
| 28 | Nephritis | 39 | - | - | - | 1 | — | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 13 |
| 29 | Puerperal and post-abortive sepsis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 30 | Other maternal causes | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 31 | Premature birth | 9 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 32 | Congenital malformations, birth injury, infantile disease | 30 | 24 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 3 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| 33 | Suicide | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| 34 | Road Traffic accidents | 9 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 35 | Other violent causes | 17 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 22 | .11 |
| 36 | All other causes | 112 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| Special Causes (included in No. 36 above) :— Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||