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The Great Fog
In common with the whole of the Greater London area, Tottenham
suffered from the effects of a very severe fog which lasted
from Friday, 5th December until the following Tuesday. The
particularly toxic nature of this fog was associated with a sharp
rise in the sickness rate as compared with the previous week. The
number of deaths registered in the Borough was nearly trebled,the
increase being almost entirely due to deaths from respiratory and
circulatory diseases.
The following table shows the age distribution of recorded
deaths compared with the same period last year.