[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow] page 12

Walthamstow 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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12
Causes of Death as given by the Registrar -General
for the year 1936.

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Whole District.

Causes of death.	Males.	Females.	Total.	Total 1935.
1. Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fevers	-	-	-	-
2. Measles	5	3	8	1
3. Scarlet Fever	-	1	1	—
4. Whooping Cough	1	3	4	6
5. Diphtheria	2	—	2	4
6. Influenza	13	13	26	10
7. Encephalitis Lethargica	2	—	2	1
8. Cerebro-spinal Fever	2	—	2	2
9. T. B. of respiratory system	43	30	73	69
10. Other Tuberculous diseases	12	2	14	6
11. Syphilis	3	1	4	1
12. General paralysis of the insane, (tabes dorsalis)	7	1	8	6
13. Cancer, malignant disease	96	96	192	204
14. Diabetes	8	8	16	14
15. Cerebral Haemorrhage, etc.	43	42	85	61
16. Heart disease	179	195	374	344
17. Aneurysm	4	3	7	7
18. Other circulatory diseases	19	24	43	48
19. Bronchitis	37	21	58	38
20. Pneumonia (all forms)	39	34	73	72
21. Other respiratory diseases	8	10	18	11
22. Peptic Ulcer	17	4	21	12
23. Diarrhoea, etc. (under 2 years)	8	3	11	7
24. Appendicitis	10	5	15	5
25. Cirrhosis of Liver	1	—	1	—
26. Other diseases of liver, etc.	2	3	5	7
27. Other digestive diseases	12	11	23	26
28. Acute and Chronic Nephritis	22	24	46	45
29. Puerperal Sepsis	—	1	1	3
30. Other Puerperal causes	—	2	2	2
31. Congenital Debility and Malformation, Premature Birth, etc.	16	21	37	40
32. Senility	2	15	17	26
33. Suicide	8	7	15	12
34. Other violence	24	9	33	39
35. Other defined causes	49	33	82	106
36. Causes ill-defined or unknown	2	—	2	1
Totals	696	625	1321	1236