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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

Richmond upon Thames 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]

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Table: This gives an Infantile Mortality rate of illegitimate children of 178 per 1,000 births.

This gives an Infantile Mortality rate of illegitimate children of 178 per 1,000 births.

Causes of Death.M.F.
All Causes221279
1.Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers——
2.Measles——
3.Scarlet Fever1—
4.Whooping Cough—1
5.Diphtheria63
6.Influenza1113
7.Encephalitis Lethargica11
8.Cerebro-Spinal Fever—1
9.Tuberculosis of respiratory system916
10.Other tuberculous diseases13
11.Syphilis——
12.General paralysis of the insane, tabes dorsalis1—
13.Cancer, malignant disease2351
14.Diabetes24
15.Cerebral haemorrhage, etc.1010
16.Heart disease5157
17.Aneurysm—1
18.Other circulatory diseases1723
19.Bronchitis816
20.Pneumonia (all forms)119
21.Other respiratory diseases—6
22.Peptic Ulcer21
23.Diarrhoea, etc. (under 2 years)——
24.Appendicitis23
25.Cirrhosis of Liver32
26.Other diseases of liver, etc.11
27.Other digestive diseases68
28.Acute and chronic nephritis416
29.Puerperal sepsis——
30.Other puerperal causes——
31.Congential debility, premature birth, malformations, etc.53
32.Senility37
33.Suicide4—
34.Other violence810
35.Other defined diseases3113
36.Causes ill-defined or unknown——
Special Causes (included in No. 35 above).
Small-pox——
Poliomyelitis——
Polioencephalitis——