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Barnes 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]

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Table 4.—Causes of Death during the Year 1945.

Causes of Death (Registrar-General's short list of causes).		Total Deaths	Male	Female
1	Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers	-	-	-
2	Cerebro-spinal fever	1	-	1
3	Scarlet Fever	-	-	-
4	Whooping Cough	-	-	-
5	Diphtheria	1	1	-
6	Tuberculosis of respiratory system	15	11	4
7	Other forms of tuberculosis	4	3	1
8	Syphilitic diseases	2	2	-
9	Influenza	3	-	3
10	Measles	-	-	-
11	Acute poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis	-	-	-
12	Acute infectious encephalitis	1	-	1
13	Cancer of buccal cavity and oesoph. (m); uterus (f)	6	2	4
14	„ stomach and duodenum	13	9	4
15	„ breast	10	-	10
16	„ all other sites	58	29	29
17	Diabetes	4	-	4
18	Intra-cranial vascular lesions	64	29	35
19	Heart Disease	100	51	49
20	Other diseases of circulatory system	27	12	15
21	Bronchitis	18	9	9
22	Pneumonia	24	10	14
23	Other respiratory diseases	8	6	2
24	Ulceration of stomach or duodenum	3	3	-
25	Diarrhoea under 2 years	2	2	-
26	Appendicitis	1	-	1
27	Other digestive diseases	13	3	10
28	Nephritis	8	4	4
29	Puerperal and post-abortive sepsis	1	-	1
30	Other maternal causes	1	-	1
31	Premature birth	2	-	2
32	Congenital malformations, birth injury, infantile diseases	13	5	8
33	Suicide	4	4	-
34	Road traffic accidents	6	1	5
35	Other violent causes	8	5	3
36	All other causes	49	16	33
	All Causes	470	217	253