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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 1947

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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Table: Deaths Registered during the Year 1947

Deaths Registered during the Year 1947

Cause of DeathMalesFemalesTotal
1 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers.........
2 Cerebro-spinal fever.........
3 Scarlet fever.........
4 Whooping cough.........
5 Diphtheria.........
6 Tuberculosis of respiratory system161733
7 Other forms of tuberculosis538
8 Syphilitic diseases235
9 Influenza123
10 Measles1...1
11 Acute polio-myelitis and polio-encephalitis.........
12 Acute infectious encephalitis112
13 Cant-er of buccul cavity and oesophagus (m) and uterus (f)448
14 Cancer of stomach and duodenum4812
15 Cancer of breast...1313
16 Cancer of all other sites452570
17 Diabetes123
18 Intra cranial vascular lesions252954
19 Heart disease8793180
20 Other diseases of circulatory system111021
21 Bronchitis261642
22 Pneumonia171330
23 Other respiratory diseases314
24 Ulcer of stomach or duodenum426
25 Diarrhoea (under two years)...11
26 Appendicitis...11
27 Other digestive diseases112
28 Nephritis5712
29 Puerperal and post-abortive sepsis.........
30 Other maternal causes...11
31 Premature birth12214
32 Congenital malformations, birth injuries, infantile disease17926
33 Suicide7512
34 Road traffic accidents4—4
35 Other violent causes8513
36 All other causes201737
All causes327291618