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Stepney 1929

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table: Causes of, and Ages at Death during the Year, 1929.Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Causes of, and Ages at Death during the Year, 1929.

Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Causes of Death.Under 1 year.1 and under 2 years.2 and under 5 year.5 and under 15 years15 and under 25 years.25 and under 45 years.45 and under 65 years.(55 and upwards.All Ages.
Chicken Pox...........................
Enteric Fever ... ..........1............1
Small Pox1............1......2
Measles11156...1.........33
Scarlet Fever11i.........3
Whooping Cough30272381.........84
Diphtheria and all deaths from Croup (except "spasmodic" "false" "stridulous" and "catarrhal")1154............11
Influenza81225185945135
Erysipelas1...............225
Cerebro-Spinal Fever1.....................1
Typhus Fever...........................
Continued Fever...........................
Dysentery...........................
Glanders...........................
Anthrax...........................
Lead Poisoning...........................
Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis......1...54787414221
Tuberculous Meningitis (Acute Hydrocephalus)1257............15
Other Tuberculous Diseases4132649130
Rheumatic Fever.........2...11...4
Cancer, malignant disease (Sarcoma, Rodent Ulcer, etc.).........2...28142101273
Bronchitis1621......18139240411
Broncho-Pneumonia75412041218693341
Pneumonia (all other forms)1210745276545175
Oilier diseases of Respiratory Organs211......38823
Diarrhoea and Enteritis (all deaths from Diarrhoea, except those secondary to some well defined disease)716..................77
Appendicitis and Typhlitis......11511113
Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens, acute and chronic alcoholism (but not those from organic disease due to alcoholism)...............12...3
Cirrhosis of Liver...............1539
Nephritis and Bright's Disease3...335164548123
Puerperal Fever ( Pyæmia, Septicæmia. Sapræmia, Pelvic Peritonitis,Peri- and Endo-Metritis occurring in the Puerperium)...............4......4
Other accidents and diseases of Pregnancy and Parturition ...5.........251...13
Congenital Debility and Malformation, includ ing Premature Birth, Atrophy Marasmus want of Breast Milk, but not from Atelectasis95.....................95
Violent Deaths, excluding Suicide10171210122640121
Suicides............2811627
Heart Disease...18121634135174375
Old Age..................1121122
other Defined Diseases8274211544195220538
Diseases ill-defined or unknown...........................
Encephalitis Lethargica...............2......2
__ Total37412093811283221,0101,1623,290