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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Southall 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]
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Table VI
Deaths from Cancer
| Year | Male | Female | Total | Estimated Population | Rate per 1,000 population | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 17 | 29 | 46 | 37,560 | 1.22 | |
| 1931 | 20 | 28 | 48 | 39,280 | 1.22 | |
| 1932 | 22 | 23 | 45 | 41,530 | 1.08 | |
| 1933 | 23 | 28 | 51 | 44,780 | 1.13 | |
| 1934 | 22 | 27 | 49 | 46,693 | 1.04 | |
| 1935 | 30 | 27 | 57 | 48,270 | 1.18 | |
| 1936 | 22 | 30 | 52 | 49,550 | 1.05 | |
| 1937 | 42 | 28 | 70 | 51,560 | 1.35 | |
| 1938 | 27 | 30 | 57 | 52,400 | 0.51 | |
| 1939 | 33 | 41 | 74 | 52,430 | 1.41 | |
| 1940 | 28 | 36 | 64 | 51,670 | 1.23 | |
| 1941 | 34 | 37 | 71 | 50,280 | 1.41 | |
| 1942 | 34 | 38 | 72 | 50,350 | 1.43 | |
| 1943 | 51 | 46 | 97 | 49.730 | 1.95 | |
| 1944 | 37 | 32 | 69 | 48,970 | 141 | |
| 1945 | 39 | 44 | 83 | 49,880 | 1.88 | |
| 1946 | 40 | 54 | 94 | 54.440 | 1.64 | |
| 1947 | 45 | 32 | 77 | 56,240 | 1.36 | |
| 1948 | 48 | 36 | 84 | 56,130 | 1.49 | |
| 1949 | 46 | 54 | 100 | 56,350 | 1.77 | |
| 1950 | 52 | 38 | 90 | 56,310 | 1.6o | |
| 1951 | 48 | 46 | 94 | 55,620 | 1.69 | |
| 1952 | 46 | 49 | 95 | 55.430 | 201 | |
| 1952 | including long stay hospital deaths | 54 | 57 | 11 | ||
| 1953 | 63 | 57 | 120 | 54.910 | 2.19 | |
| 1954 | 72 | 43 | 115 | 54,440 | 211 | |
Table VII
Notifiable Diseases during the Year (other than Tuberculosis)
| Diseases | Ages | Total cases notified | Deaths | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | 3 to 4 | 4 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and over | |||
| Dysentery | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 54 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 115 | - |
| Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | - | — | — |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 4 | - | 10 | — |
| Food Poisoning | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | ‡45 | — |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | i | 1 | - |
| Measles | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 41 | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Paratyphoid | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | — | - | - | 1 | — |
| Pneumonia | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 23 | 11 | 100 | — |
| Poliomyelitis: | ||||||||||||||
| Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 |
| Non-Paralytic | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | — | 4 | - | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — |
| Scarlet Fever | - | - | 5 | 6 | 14 | †70 | 5 | - | 1 | — | - | - | 101 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 20 | 2 | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | 65 | — |
| Total | 21 | 19 | 26 | 28 | 44 | 182 | 34 | 18 | 23 | 38 | 37 | 17 | 487 | 1 |
| *One not confirmed; one diagnosed as influenza. † One case diagnosed as follicular tonsillitis. ‡ Only one was bacteriologically positive, the organism found was salmonella typhi-murium. | ||||||||||||||