Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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Particulars of Births and Deaths as supplied by the Registrar-General for the Year 1936.
Cause of Death. | Males. | Females. |
---|---|---|
All Causes | 370 | 378 |
1. Typhoid Fever, etc. | - | - |
2. Measles | 1 | 1 |
3. Scarlet Fever | 1 | — |
4. Whooping Cough | — | — |
5. Diphtheria | — | — |
6. Influenza | 5 | 8 |
7. Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | 1 |
8. Cerebro-Spinal Fever | — | — |
9. Respiratory Tuberculosis | 26 | 24 |
10. Other tuberculous diseases | 1 | 2 |
11. Syphilis | 1 | 1 |
12. General paralysis of the insane, etc. | 3 | — |
13. Cancer | 55 | 62 |
14. Diabetes | 7 | 3 |
15. Cerebral haemorrhage, | 15 | 12 |
16. Heart Disease | 89 | 107 |
17. Aneurysm | 2 | 1 |
18. Other circulatory diseases | 13 | 25 |
19. Bronchitis | 14 | 18 |
20. Pneumonia | 29 | 22 |
21. Other respiratory diseases | 1 | 4 |
22. Peptic Ulcer | 8 | — |
23. Diarrhoea, etc. (under two years) | 4 | 1 |
24. Appendicitis | 2 | 4 |
25. Cirrhosis of liver | — | — |
26. Other liver diseases | 2 | 1 |
27. Other digestive diseases | 8 | 10 |
28. Nephritis | 11 | 15 |
29. Puerperal Sepsis | — | 3 |
30. Other Puerperal causes | — | 2 |
31. Congenital causes, etc. | 11 | 8 |
32. Senility | 7 | 8 |
33. Suicide | 4 | 4 |
34. Other violence | 20 | 7 |
35. Other defined diseases | 29 | 24 |
36. Ill-defined causes | — | — |
Special Causes (included in No. 35 above)— | ||
Small-pox | — | — |
Poliomyelitis | — | — |
Polioencephalitis | — | - |
Deaths of Infants under 1 year— | ||
Total | 26 | 15 |
Legitimate | 22 | 15 |
Illegitimate | 4 | - |
Live Births— | ||
Total | 420 | 411 |
Legitimate | 390 | 403 |
Illegitimate | 30 | 8 |
Still-births— | ||
Total | 5 | 16 |
Legitimate | 5 | 15 |
Illegitimate | — | 1 |
POPULATION | 62.300 |