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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 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]

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Table: There were four deaths of illegitimate infants under one year of age out of 29 illegitimate births. This gives an Infantile Mortality rate of illegitimate children of 138 per 1,000 births.

There were four deaths of illegitimate infants under one year of age out of 29 illegitimate births. This gives an Infantile Mortality rate of illegitimate children of 138 per 1,000 births.

Causes of Death.M.F.
All Causes218290
1.Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers——
2.Measles——
3.Scarlet Fever——
4.Whooping Cough1—
5.Diphtheria22
6.Influenza48
7.Encephalitis Lethargica1—
8.Cerebro-Spinal Fever—1
9.Tuberculosis of respiratory system1011
10.Other tuberculosis diseases21
11.Syphilis1—
12.General paralysis of the insane, tabes dorsalis11
13.Cancer, malignant disease3058
14.Diabetes21
15.Cerebral haemorrhage, etc.1016
16.Heart disease4461
17.Aneurysm—2
18.Other circulatory diseases1824
19.Bronchitis84
20.Pneumonia (all forms)1115
21.Other respiratory diseases37
22.Peptic Ulcer82
23.Diarrhoea, etc. (under 2 years)—1
24.Appendicitis41
25.Cirrhosis of Liver—1
26.Other diseases of liver, etc.12
27.Other digestive diseases415
28.Acute and chronic nephritis79
29Puerperal sepsis—1
30.Other puerperal causes——
31.Congential debility, premature birth, malformations, etc.-8
32.Senility46
33.Suicide81
34.Other violence711
35.Other defined diseases2720
36.Causes ill-defined or unknown—-