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Stepney 1930

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table: Causes of, and Ages at Death during the Year, 1930.Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Causes of, and Ages at Death during the Year, 1930.

Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Causes of Death.Under 1 year.1 and under 2 years.2 and under 5 years.5 and under 15 years.15 and under 25 years.25 and under 45 years.45 and under 65 years.65 and upwardsAll Ages.
Chicken Pox1.....................1
Enteric Fever............11......2
Small Pox..................213
Measles13335...............51
Scarlet Fever......511.........7
Whooping Cough...22...............4
Diphtheria and all deaths from Croup (except "spasmodic" "false" "stridulous" and "Catarrhal")161114............32
influenza...............1113
Erysipelas8.........1...2213
Cerebro-Spinal Fever41...1............6
Typhus Fever...........................
Continued Fever...........................
Dysentery..................1...1
Glanders...........................
Anthrax...........................
Head Poisoning...........................
Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis)...12343708215216
Tuberculous Meningitis (Acute Hydrocephalus)135311......14
Other Tuberculous Diseases......2315......11
Rheumatic Fever.........5664122
Cancer, malignant disease (Sarcoma, Rodent Ulcer, etc.)1......1730146141326
Bronchitis111.........643109170
Broncho-Pneumonia672343363445185
Pneumonia (all other forms)96244202927101
Other diseases of Respiratory Organs11...11...9619
Diarrhoea and Enteritis (all deaths from Diarrhoea, except those secondary to some well defined disease)629...22.........75
Appendicitis and Typhlitis......264413332
Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens, acute and chronic alcoholism (but not those from organic disease due to alcoholism)...............1......1
Cirrhosis of Liver...............3519
Nephritis and Bright's Disease......217124748117
Puerperal Fever (Pyæmia, Septicaemia, Sapræmia, Pelvic Peritonitis, Peri- and EndoMetritis occurring in the Puerperium)...............3......3
Other accidents and diseases of Pregnancy and Parturition............15......6
Congenital Debility and Malformation, includ ing Premature Birth, Atrophy, Marasmus, want of Breast Milk, but not from Atelectasis992..................101
Violent Deaths, excluding Suicide7...721983029111
Suicides............1414322
Heart Disease12...82136159291518
Old Age..................2111113
Other Defined Diseases23811112043152137405
Diseases ill-defined or unknown............11......2
Encephalitis Lethargica..................1...1
Atelectasis13.....................13
Total3229860881352667769712,716