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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
Bromley 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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a satisfactory reduction on the previous year's figure of 13.3, which was
high owing to the large number of deaths from Influenza.
The causes of death as set out in the Registrar General's table are as follows:–
| Enteric fever | |
| Smallpox | |
| Measles | 5 |
| Scarlet fever | 1 |
| Whooping cough | 1 |
| Diphtheria and Croup | 6 |
| Influenza | 30 |
| Erysipelas | |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 22 |
| Tuberculous meningitis | 2 |
| Other tuberculous diseases | 3 |
| Cancer, malignant disease | 45 |
| Rheumatic fever | 1 |
| Meningitis | 3 |
| Organic heart disease | 62 |
| Bronchitis... | 27 |
| Pneumonia (all forms) | 20 |
| Other respiratory diseases | 6 |
| Diarrhoea, etc. (under 2 years) | 3 |
| Appendicitis and typhlitis | 1 |
| Cirrhosis of liver | 1 |
| Alcoholism | 1 |
| Nephritis and Bright's disease | 7 |
| Puerperal fever | 3 |
| Parturition, apart from puerperal fever | 3 |
| Congenital debility, etc. | 20 |
| Violence, apart from suicide | 12 |
| Suicide | 5 |
| Other defined diseases | 117 |
| Causes ill-defined or unknown |