[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow] page 9

Walthamstow 1963

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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Causes of Death as given by the Registrar General for the

Year 1963

Causes of Death	Males	Females	Total	1962
1 Tuberculosis Respiratory	4	2	6	5
2 Tuberculosis other	-	-	-	-
3 Syphilitic Disease	1	-	1	6
4 Diphtheria	-	-	-	-
5 Whooping Cough	-	-	-	-
6 Meningococcal Infections	-	-	-	-
7 Acute Poliomyelitis	-	-	-	-
8 Measles	-	-	-	-
9 Other Infective and Parasitic Diseases	1	-	1	-
10 Malignant neoplasm stomach	19	17	36	44
11 Malignant neoplasm Lung bronchus	74	9	83	75
12 Malignant neoplasm breast	-	19	19	27
13 Malignant neoplasm uterus	-	8	8	9
14 Other malignant and lymphatic neoplasms	52	62	114	131
15 Leukaemia aleukaemia	6	2	8	7
16 Diabetes	6	10	16	11
17 Vascular lesions of nervous system	65	96	161	148
18 Coronary disease angina	147	106	253	241
19 Hypertension with heart disease	5	9	14	14
20 Other heart disease	59	81	140	139
21 Other circulatory disease	35	39	74	55
22 Influenza	3	4	7	10
23 Pneumonia	55	55	110	84
24 Bronchitis	63	24	87	83
25 Other diseases of respiratory system	7	4	11	11
26 Ulcer of stomach and duodenum	11	5	16	13
27 Gastritis enteritis and diarrhoea	3	5	8	4
28 Nephritis and nephrosis	4	2	6	4
29 Hyperplasia of prostate	3	-	3	8
30 Pregnancy childbirth abortion	-	-	-	1
31 Congenita] malformations	6	4	10	9
32 Other defined and ill defined diseases	38	49	87	90
33 Motor Vehicle Accidents	5	4	9	15
34 All other accidents	9	8	17	19
35 Suicide	3	4	7	10
36 Homicide and operations of war	-	-	-	-
Totals 1963	684	628	1,312	-
Totals 1962	650	623	-	1 273

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The age distribution of Cancer deaths was as follows Deaths from Lung Cancer are shown separately but are also included in the total age groups.

	1 4 yrs.	5 14 yrs.	25 44 yrs	45-64 yrs.	65-74 yrs.	75 yrs. & over
Total deaths	2	2	12	86	90	76
Lung
Males			1	29	28	16
Females			1	4	4	-