Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Females - 57 years Bronchopneumonia: influenza.
63 years Acute myocardial failure: bronchitis: influenza:
chronic bronchitis.
71 years Myocardial failure: auricular fibrillation:
post influenzal bronchopneumonia.
72 years Heart failure: supraventricular tachycardia:
post-influenzal bronchopneumonia.
74 years Acute ventricular failure: toxic myocarditis:
post-influenzal bronchopneumonia.
81 years Acute heart failure: influenza and carditis:
chronic interstitial carditis: atherosclerosis
and hypertension myxoedema.
84 years Influenza: cardiovascular degeneration and
senility.
84 years Influenzal bronchial pneumonia; cerebral
thrombosis' arterio sclerosis.
84 years Cardiac failure: bronchopneumonia: influenza:
old age.
Age groups | Males | Females | Total |
---|---|---|---|
15-24 | 1 | - | 1 |
25-44 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
45-64 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
65-74 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
75 and upwards | 1 | 2 | 3 |
10 | 11 | 21 |
The causes of death in these cases were as follows:-
Males - 18 years Coal gas poisoning.
28 years Hanging.
33 years Coal gas poisoning.
44 years Seconal poisoning.
44 years Barbiturate poisoning (sodium amytal).
55 years Coal gas poisoning.
57 years Carbon monoxide poisoning (coal gas).
63 years Coal gas poisoning.
68 years Coal gas poisoning,
79 years Carbon monoxide poisoning (coal gas).
Females - 29 years Fractured dislocation of spine and multiple injuries
sustained when she threw herself through window,
40 years Barbiturate (Tuinal) poisoning.
48 years Barbiturate poisoning.
53 years Coal gas poisoning.
54 years Coal gas poisoning.
61 years Barbiturate (Tuinal) poisoning.
65 years Coal gas poisoning.
65 years Lysol poisoning
70 years Shock and anaemia due to cut throat.
78 years Aspirin poisoning.
78 years Strangulation by elastic ligature.
The following table shows the suicidal deaths in the borough during the past seven years:-
Year | Males | Females | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1951 | 9 | 9 | 18 |
1952 | 10 | 7 | 17 |
1953 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
1954 | 20 | 13 | 33 |
1955 | 6 | 8 | 14 |
1956 | 11 | 8 | 19 |
1957 | 10 | 11 | 21 |