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Barnes 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]

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Table 4.— Causes of Death during the Year 1953.

Causes of Death (Registrar-General's short list of causes)		Total Deaths	Male	Female
1	Tuberculosis, respiratory	11	6	5
2	Tuberculosis, other	1	1	-
3	Syphilitic diseases	2	2	-
4	Diphtheria	-	-	-
5	Whooping Cough	-	-	-
6	Meningococcal infections	-	-	-
7	Acute poliomyelitis	-	-	-
8	Measles	-	-	-
9	Other infective and parasitic diseases	-	-	-
10	Malignant neoplasm, stomach	11	4	7
11	Malignant neoplasm, lung, bronchus	14	13	1
12	Malignant neoplasm, breast	9	-	9
13	Malignant neoplasm, uterus	9	-	9
14	Other malignant and lymphatic neoplasms	51	25	26
15	Leukaemia, aleukaemia	3	1	2
16	Diabetes	3	2	1
17	Vascular legions of nervous system	91	27	64
18	Coronary disease, angina	71	54	17
19	Hypertension with heart disease	10	4	6
20	Other heart disease	70	25	45
21	Other circulatory diseases	40	19	21
22	Influenza	10	6	4
23	Pneumonia	30	11	19
24	Bronchitis	27	23	4
25	Other diseases of respiratory system	-	-	-
26	Ulcer of stomach and duodenum	7	1	6
27	Gastritis, enteritis and diarrhoea	5	2	3
28	Nephritis and nephrosis	6	4	2
29	Hyperplasia of prostate	2	2	-
30	Pregnancy, childbirth abortion	1	-	1
31	Congenital malformations	8	6	2
32	Other defined and ill-defined diseases	52	22	30
33	Motor vehicle accidents	5	4	1
34	All other accidents	12	6	6
35	Suicide	2	2	-
36	Homicide and operations of war	-	-	-
All Causes		563	272	291