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Southall 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]

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Causes of Deaths, 1937.

Table No . 3.

MaleFemaleTotal 1937Total 1936
1. Typhoid fever, etc
2. Measles1
3. Scarlet fever1
4. Whooping cough334
5. Diphtheria2461
6. Influenza411157
7. Encephalitis lethargica11
8. Cerebro-spinal fever111
9. Tuberculosis—respiratory14132732
10. Other tuberculosis5273
11. Syphilis1
12. General paralysis of the insane, etc.11
13. Cancer42287052
14. Diabetes2242
15. Cerebral haemorrhage881611
16. Heart disease545410882
17. Aneurysm221
18. Other circulatory diseases12263826
19. Bronchitis771428
20. Pneumonia (all forms)1692536
21 Other respiratory diseases33610
22. Peptic ulcer444
23. Diarrhoea, etc. (under 2 years)55104
24. Appendicitis314
25. Cirrhosis of liver1121
26. Other liver diseases225
27. Other digestive diseases36910
28. Nephritis82103
29. Puerperal sepsis223
30. Other puerperal causes4
31. Congenital causes, etc.9132235
32. Senility2578
33. Suicide2244
34. Other violence1161720
35. Other defined causes21163724
36. Ill-defined causes
Special Causes (included in No. 35)
M.F.
Smallpox
Poliomyelitis1
Polioencephalitis
Total Deaths244230474424