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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 1946

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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Table: Deaths Registered during the Year 1946

Deaths Registered during the Year 1946

Cause or DeathMalesFemalesTotal
1 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers
2 Cerebro-spinalfever.........
3 Scarlet fever.........
4 Whooping cough.........
5 Diphtheria.........
6 Tuberculosis of respiratory system211334
7 Other forms of tuberculosis213
8 Syphilitic diseases3...3
9 Influenza246
10 Measles.........
11 Acute polio-myelitis and polio-eucephalitis.........
12 Acute infectious encephalitis...11
13 Cancer of buccul cavity and oesophagus (m) and uterus (f)5611
14 Cancer of stomach and duodenum9413
15 Cancer of breast...1414
16 Cancer of all other sites422870
17 Diabetes...22
18 Intra-cranial vascular lesions222749
19 Heart disease6881149
20 Other diseases of circulatory system91625
21 Bronchitis221436
22 Pneumonia14620
23 Other respiratory diseases729
24 Ulcer of stomach or duodenum8...8
25 Diarrhoea (under two years)2...2
26 Appendicitis......
27 Other digestive diseases5712
28 Nephritis448
29 Puerperal and post-abortive sepsis.........
30 Other maternal causes.........
31 Premature birth224
32 Congenital malformations, birth injuries, infantile disease15419
33 Suicide538
34 Road traffic accidents213
35 Other violent causes527
36 All other causes252853
All causes299290569