London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Brent 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brent]
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Table 1
| CAUSES OF DEATH | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Total | ||
| B.l | Cholera | - | - | - |
| B.2 | Typhoid fever | - | - | - |
| B.3 | Bacillary dysentery and amoebiasis | - | - | - |
| B.4 | Enteritis and other diarrhoeal diseases | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| B.5 | Tuberculosis of respiratory system | 5 | - | 5 |
| B.6 | Other tuberculosis, incl. late effects | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| B.7 | Plague | - | - | - |
| B.8 | Diphtheria | - | - | - |
| B.9 | Whooping cough | - | - | - |
| B.10 | Streptococcal sore throat and scarlet fever | - | - | - |
| B.l 1 | Meningococcal infection | - | - | - |
| B.12 | Acute poliomyelitis | - | - | - |
| B.13 | Smallpox | - | - | - |
| B.14 | Measles | - | - | - |
| B.15 | Typhus and other rickettsioses | - | - | - |
| B.16 | Malaria | 1 | - | 1 |
| B.17 | Syphilis and its sequelae | 1 | - | 1 |
| B.18 | Other infective and parasitic diseases | 5 | - | 5 |
| B.19(l) | Malignant neoplasm, buccal cavity, etc | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| B.l9(2) | Malignant neoplasm, oesophagus | 11 | 7 | 18 |
| B.19(3) | Malignant neoplasm, stomach | 39 | 22 | 61 |
| B.l9(4) | Malignant neoplasm, intestine | 33 | 46 | 79 |
| B.l9(5) | Malignant neoplasm, larynx | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| B.l9(6) | Malignant neoplasm, lung, bronchus | 158 | 44 | 202 |
| B.l9(7) | Malignant neoplasm, breast | - | 63 | 63 |
| B.19(8) | Malignant neoplasm, uterus | - | 20 | 20 |
| B.l9(9) | Malignant neoplasm, prostate | 21 | - | 21 |
| B.19(10) | Leukaemia | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| B.19(11) | Other malignant neoplasms | 88 | 95 | 183 |
| B.20 | Benign and unspecified neoplasms | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| B.21 | Diabetes mellitus | 19 | 12 | 31 |
| B.22 | Avitaminoses and other nutritional deficiency | - | 2 | 2 |
| B.46(l) | Other endocrine, etc., diseases | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| B.23 | Anaemias | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| B.46(2) | Other diseases of blood, etc | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| B.46(3) | Mental disorders | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| B.24 | Meningitis | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| B.46(4) | Other dieases of nervous system, etc | 17 | 21 | 38 |
| B.25 | Active rheumatic fever | - | - | - |
| B.26 | Chronic Rheumatic heart disease | 19 | 31 | 50 |
| B.27 | Hypertensive disease | 29 | 39 | 68 |
| B.28 | Ischaemic heart disease | 408 | 258 | 666 |