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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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(b) CANCER.
The number of deaths attributed to cancer was 321.
The following table gives an analysis of the age and sex distribution as well as the localisation of the disease in all persons certified as dying from cancer during the year.
| Age Groups | Malignant Neoplasms | Other Malignant & Lymphatic Neoplasms | TOTAL | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stomach | Lung & Bronchus | Leukaemia & Aleukaemia | Breast | Uterus | |||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | F. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| 0-14 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 15-24 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 25-44 | 3 | - | 4 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 19 |
| 45-64 | 20 | 5 | 40 | 3 | - | 2 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 18 | 117 |
| 65-74 | 9 | 6 | 23 | 6 | 2 | - | 6 | 1 | 33 | 17 | 103 |
| 75 & over | 5 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | 28 | 19 | 77 |
| Total | 37 | 21 | 75 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 88 | 61 | 321 |
Nineteen per cent of the deaths from all causes in the Borough were due to cancer
compared with 17 per cent for all deaths registered in England and Wales.
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