London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Hackney 1959

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Females - 3 years Agranulocytosis. Marrow hypoplasia, leukaemia.
14 years Acute Leukaemia (Blast cell type).
27 years Respiratory depression. Anaemia.Myeloid
leukaemia. Agranulocytosis, and ulcers of
mouth and oesophagus.
51 years Acute lymphatic leukaemia
61 years Chronic lymphatic leukaemia.
65 years Acute myeloblastic leukaemia.
Influenza. Details of the twenty-one deaths associated with influenza are
as follows:-
Males - 38 years Respiratory failure, bronchopneumonia.
Influenza. Post encephalitic Parkinsonism
57 years Congestive heart failure. Bronchopneumonia
Influenza. Bronchitis and thyrotoxicosis
78 years Left ventricular failure. Acute bronchitis.
Influenza.
82 years Influenza. Bronchopneumonia.
83 years Toxic myocarditis. Influenza.
88 years Bronchopneumonia. Chronic bronchitis and
emphysema Influenza.
Females - 46 years Cardiac failure. Influenza.
49 years Influenzal bronchopneumonia. Abscess in the
groin.
64 years Toxic myocarditis. Influenza, Patty heart.
66 years Bronchopneumonia. Influenza. Anaemia.
67 years Influenzal bronchopneumonia. Chronic
bronchitis. Congestive cardiac failure
68 years Bronchopneumonia Influenza. Carcinoma
left breast (radical mastectomy 1948).
69 years Bronchopneumonia Influenza. Congestive
cardiac failure.
72 years Heart failure. Bronchopneumonia. Influenza.
Chronic bronchitis and arterio sclerosis.
74 years Acute bronchitis. Influenza.
74 years Cardiac failure. Influenzal bronchitis
76 years Acute influenzal pneumonia. Cerebral
thrombosis with right hemiplegia
77 years Bronchopneumonia. Acute influenza. Congestive
heart failure.
77 years Congestive heart failure. Influenza. Diabetes
mellitus.
77 years Heart failure. Bronchopneumonia. Influenza.
Hypertensive congestive failure.
78 years Influenzal pneumonia.

Suicide.There were twenty- five cases of suicide, sixteen men and nine women in the following age groups; -

Age groupsMalesFemalesTotal
15-24 years1-1
25-44 years516
45-64 years6612
65-74 years325
75 years and over1-1
16925