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 Wimbledon]
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1927 | 1926 | 1925 | 1924 | 1923 | 1922 | |
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Table II. gives the causes of, and ages at, deaths during 1927. Deaths due to notifiable infectious diseases are given on p. 38. The principal causes of death, apart from Zymotic deaths, are as follows:—
Heart Disease | 101 |
Cancer | 75 |
Pneumonia | 45 |
Cerebral Hæmorrhage | 40 |
Tuberculosis (Respiratory) | 40 |
Bronchitis | 38 |
Infantile Mortality:—There were 37 infant deaths during
the year (including transferable deaths), giving a rate of 50
per thousand registered births, an increase of 17 per-thousand
on last year's figures, when there were 27 deaths and a rate
of 33. The infantile death-rate calculated on the RegistrarGreneral's
figures, is 50 per thousand births. The infant death
rate for illegitimate children was 137 per thousand illegitimate
births.
The following table shows the causes of death, and ages
at death, of Infants under one year:—
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