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Twickenham 1939

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]

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CAUSES OF DEATH, 1939. .Registrar General's Official Returns.

Causes of Death.MalesFemalesTotal
All causes5234971020
1.Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers--
2.Measles11
3.Scarlet Fever---
4.Whooping cough437
5.Diphtheria123
6.Influenza151126
7.Encephalitis lethargica11
8.Cerebro-spinal fever---
9.Tuberculosis of respiratory system362460
10.Other tubercular diseases257
11.Syphilis213
12.General paralysis of the insane, tabes dorsalis6-6
13.Cancer,malignant disease7775152
14.Diabetes51015
15.Cerebral haemorrhage,etc.162238
16.Heart disease134160294
17.Aneurysm213
18.Other circulatory diseases283462
19.Bronchitis81018
20.Pneumonia (all forms)191433
21.Other respiratory diseases628
22.Peptic ulcer11112
23.Diarrhoea,etc. (under 2 years)22
24.Appendicitis347
25.Cirrhosis of liver2-2
26.Other diseases of the liver etc156
27.Other digestive diseases13720
28.Acute and chronic nephritis11617
29.Puerperal sepsis---
30.Other puerperal causes-44
31.Congenital debility,premature birth, Malformations,etc.121224
32.Senility101727
33.Suicide10616
34.Other violence342155
35.Other defined diseases513485
36.Causes ill-defined or unknown---
37.Diarrhoea,2 years and over-66

MATERNAL MORTALITY.
The number of deaths from puerperal causes during
1939 were as follows:-
Puerperal sepsis Nil.
Other puerperal causes 4.
The maternal mortality rate per 1,000 total (live and
ill)births was 2.7,compared with 2.82 for England and Wales.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The deaths of infants under one year of age during
39 numbered 37, producing an infantile mortality rate of 26.4
1,000 live births, as compared with 45.8 for the previous
The exceptionally low figure is particularly gratifying.
rate for England and Wales was 50.
Congenital debility, premature birth, malformations,
etc. caused 21 (or 64 percent.) of the total infant deaths.
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