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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

Mitcham 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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Table: Deaths Registered during the Year 1945

Deaths Registered during the Year 1945

Cause of DeathMalesFemalesTotal
1 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers.........
2 Cerebro-spinal fever.........
3 Scarlet fever.........
4 Whooping cough1...1
5 Diphtheria.........
6 Tuberculosis of respiratory system221052
7 Other forms of tuberculosis336
8 Syphilitic diseases4...4
9 Influenza2...2
10 Measles1...1
11 Acutepolio-myelitis and polio-encephalitis1...1
12 Acute infectious encephalitis.........
13 Cancer of buccul cavity and oesophagus (m) and uterus (f)7310
14 Cancer of stomach and duodenum6915
15 Cancer of breast...38
16 Cancer of all other sites452570
17 Diabetes...33
18 Intra cranial vascular lesions212950
19 Heart disease5566121
20 Other diseases of circulatory system111324
21 Bronchitis281139
22 Pneumonia181432
23 Other respiratory diseases415
24 Ulcer of stomach or duodenum4...4
25 Diarrhœa (under two years)...22
26 Appendicitis112
27 Other digestive diseases459
28 Nephritis10414
29 Puerperal and post-abortive sepsis...11
30 Other maternal causes.........
31 Premature birth538
32 Congenital malformations, birth injuries, infantile disease91221
33 Suicide1...1
34 Road traffic accidents416
35 Other violent causes437
36 All other causes173653
All causes288263551