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 Wanstead and Woodford]
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The following is the Registrar-General 's Short List of Deaths and Causes.
CAUSES OF DEATH. | M. | F. | |
---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 268 | 287 | |
1. | Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers | 2 | .. |
2. | Measles | .. | .. |
3. | Scarlet fever | .. | .. |
4. | Whooping cough | .. | 1 |
5. | Diphtheria | .. | .. |
6. | Influenza | 4 | 10 |
7. | Encephalitis lethargica | 1 | .. |
8. | Cerebro-spinal fever | .. | .. |
9. | Tuberculosis of respiratory system | 15 | 7 |
10. | Other tuberculous diseases | 2 | 1 |
11. | Syphilis | .. | .. |
12. | General paralysis of the insane, tabes dorsalis | 1 | .. |
13. | Cancer, malignant disease | 51 | 55 |
14. | Diabetes | 5 | 4 |
15. | Cerebral haemorrhage, etc. | 11 | 27 |
16. | Heart disease | 67 | 53 |
17. | Aneurysm | 3 | 1 |
18. | Other circulatory diseases | 8 | 18 |
19. | Bronchitis | 7 | 9 |
20. | Pneumonia (all forms) | 10 | 12 |
21. | Other respiratory diseases | .. | 3 |
22. | Peptic ulcer | 5 | .. |
23. | Diarrhoea, etc. (under 2 years) | 2 | .. |
24. | Appendicitis | 1 | .. |
25. | Cirrhosis of liver | 1 | .. |
26. | Other diseases of liver, etc. | .. | 6 |
27. | Other digestive diseases | 5 | 6 |
28. | Acute and chronic nephritis | 6 | 4 |
29. | Puerperal sepsis | .. | 1 |
30. | Other puerperal causes | .. | 1 |
31. | Congenital debility, premature birth, malformations, etc. | 12 | 9 |
32. | Senility | 7 | 28 |
33. | Suicide | 6 | 5 |
34. | Other voilence | 12 | 6 |
35. | Other defined diseases | 23 | 20 |
36. | Causes ill-defined or unknown | .. | .. |
Diarrhoea (2 years and over) | 1 | .. | |
Special Causes (included in No. 35 above):- | |||
Anthrax | .. | 1 | |
Poliomyelitis | .. | .. | |
Polioencephalitis | .. | .. |
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