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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. Measles———1
3. Scarlet fever———1
4. Whooping cough3—34
5. Diphtheria2461
6. Influenza411157
7. Encephalitis lethargica1—1—
8. Cerebro-spinal fever1—11
9. Tuberculosis—respiratory14132732
10. Other tuberculosis5273
11. Syphilis———1
12. General paralysis of the insane, etc.1—1—
13. Cancer42287052
14. Diabetes2242
15. Cerebral haemorrhage881611
16. Heart disease545410882
17. Aneurysm—221
18. Other circulatory diseases12263826
19. Bronchitis771428
20. Pneumonia (all forms)1692536
21 Other respiratory diseases33610
22. Peptic ulcer4—44
23. Diarrhoea, etc. (under 2 years)55104
24. Appendicitis314—
25. Cirrhosis of liver1121
26. Other liver diseases—225
27. Other digestive diseases36910
28. Nephritis82103
29. Puerperal sepsis—223
30. Other puerperal causes———4
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——
Poliomyelitis—1
Polioencephalitis——
Total Deaths244230474424