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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

Sutton and Cheam 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam]

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Table: CAUSES OF DEATH IN THE BOROUGH OF SUTTON AND CHEAM DURING 1954

CAUSES OF DEATH IN THE BOROUGH OF SUTTON AND CHEAM DURING 1954

M.F.Total
i Tuberculosis, respiratory426
2 Tuberculosis, other2-2
3 Syphilitic disease---
4 Diphtheria---
5 Whooping Cough---
6 Meningococcal infections-11
7 Acute Poliomyelitis---
8 Measles---
9 Other Infective and parasitic diseases-11
10 Mallgiant neoplasm, stomach10717
11 Mallgiant neoplasm, lung, bronchus35338
12 Mallgiant neoplasm, breast-2020
13 Mallgiant neoplasm, uterus-66
14 Other mallgiant and lymphatic neoplasms513889
15 Leukaemia, aleukaemla426
16 Diabetes112
17 Vascular lesions of nervous system2988117
18 Coronary diseases, angina7551126
19 Hypertension with heart disease71522
20 Other heart disease4282124
21 Other circulatory disease141731
22 Influenza112
23 Pneumonia12820
24 Bronchitis331750
25 Other diseases of respiratory system628
26 Ulcer of stomach and duodenum9211
27 Gastritis, enteritis and diarrhoea-22
28 Nephritis and nephrosis6511
29 Hyperplasia of prostate---
30 Pregnancy, childbirth, abortion---
31 Congenital malformations5-5
32 Other defined and ill-defined diseases303969
33 Motor vehicle accidents617
34 All other accidents8614
35 Suicide-22
36 Homlcide and operations of war---
Totals390419809