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
West Ham 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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APPENDIX 1
CAUSES OF DEATH IN AGE GROUPS - 1948(as supplied by Registrar-General)
| Cause of Death | All Ages | Deaths at different periods of life of residents (civilians) whether occurring within or without the district | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1 - 5 years | 5 -15 years | 15-45 years | 45-65 years | 65 and Upwards | |||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 1. Typhoid & paratyphoid fevers | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2. Cerebreo-spinal fever | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 3. Scarlet fever | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 4. Whooping Cough | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5. Diphtheria | — | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 6. Tuberculosis of respiratory system | 57 | 38 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | 31 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 7.Other forms of tuberculosis | 7 | 4 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| 8. Syphilitic diseases | 9 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 9. Influenza | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | - | - | 1 |
| 10. Mesles | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | - | - |
| 11. Acute polio-mylitis and polle-encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 12. A cuts infective ecephalitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 13. Cancer of buccal eavity& oesophagus (M) uterus (F) | 6 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 |
| 14. Cancer of stomach and duodenum | 32 | 19 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 34 | 4 | 15 | 14 |
| 15. Cancer of breast | - | 34 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | — | 13 | - | 34 |
| 16. Cancer of all other sites | 111 | 74 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 7 | 56 | 27 | 47 | 40 |
| 17.Diabitis | 3 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 18. Intracranial vascular lesions | 69 | 93 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | l4 | 18 | 53 | 73 |
| 19. Heart disease | 232 | 243 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 61 | 34 | 165 | 201 |
| 20. Other diseases of circulatery system | 37 | 41 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 25 | 31 |
| 2l. Bronchitis | - | 41 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 26 | 7 | 60 | 31 |
| 22. Pneumenia | 30 | 33 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 24 | 13 |
| 23. Other respiratory diseases | 17 | 11 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
| 24. Ulcer of stomach and duedenum | 16 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | 6 | - | 4 | 5 |
| 25. Diarrhia under two years | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 26. Appendicitis | 2 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 27. Other digestive diseases | 16 | 20 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 5 | 5 | 7 | 25 |
| 28. Mephritls | 17 | 11 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 |
| 29. Puerperal and post abertive sepsis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 30. Other maternal causes | — | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| 32. Premature birth | 19 | 32 | 19 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 32. Congenital malformations, birth injury, Infant diseases | 23 | 23 | 17 | 20 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | 3 | - |
| 33. Suicide | 9 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 34. R@ad Traffie accidents | 7 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 |
| 33. Other violent causes | 19 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 9 | 1 | 4 | - | 2 | 8 |
| 36.All orher causes | 64 | 38 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 37 | 24 |
| TOTAL | 910 | 809 | 55 | 56 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 94 | 82 | 282 | 357 | 458 | 502 |