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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

Brentford and Chiswick 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]

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Table: TABLE I.Particulars of Births and Deaths as supplied by the Registrar-General for the Year 1938.

TABLE I.

Particulars of Births and Deaths as supplied by the Registrar-General for the Year 1938.

Cause of Death.Males.Females.
All Causes332339
1. Typhoid Fever, etc.——
2. Measles11
3. Scarlet Fever——
4. Whooping Cough——
5. Diphtheria12
6. Influenza22
7. Encephalitis Lethargica——
8. Cerebro-Spinal Fever—2
9. Respiratory Tuberculosis298
10. Other tuberculous diseases22
11. Syphilis11
12. General paralysis of the insane, etc.41
13. Cancer6953
14. Diabetes28
15. Cerebral haemorrhage,1017
16. Heart Disease79101
17. Aneurysm21
18. Other circulatory diseases1118
19. Bronchitis1110
20. Pneumonia1414
21. Other respiratory diseases46
22. Peptic Ulcer121
23. Diarrhoea, etc. (under two years)33
24. Appendicitis92
25. Cirrhosis of liveri1
26. Other liver diseases—2
27. Other digestive diseases711
28. Nephritis411
29. Puerperal Sepsis—1
30. Other Puerperal causes—2
31. Congenital causes, etc.129
32. Senility510
33. Suicide57
34. Other violence1310
35. Other defined diseases2821
36. Ill-defined causes—1
Special Causes (included in No. 35 above)—
Small-pox——
Poliomyelitis——
Polioencephalitis——
Deaths of Infants under 1 year—
Total1816
Legitimate1514
Illegitimate32
Live Births—
Total422394
Legitimate400372
Illegitimate2222
Still-births—
Total813
Legitimate812
Illegitimate—1
POPULATION61.470