[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Abercarn U.D.C.

  • Abercarn (Wales). Urban District Council.
Date:
1950
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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Abercarn U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Infectious Diseases. The principal Notifiable Diseases are Smallpox, Typhoid, Typhus, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Puerperal Fever, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Continued Fever. There were no deaths from the principal Notifiable Diseases during 1950. CAUSES OF DEATH, 1950 1949 1950 M. F. M. F. 130 87 ALL CAUSES 112 88 8 7 Tuberculosis—Respiratory System 9 4 — — Tuberculosis—Other Forms 4 — 4 2 Influenza — — — 2 Cancer of B. Cav.Oesoph (M); Uterus (F) . 5 7 4 5 Cancer of Stomach and Duodenum 7 1 — 1 Cancer—Breast — 2 10 5 Cancer—Other Sites 13 8 — 4 Diabetes 1 1 12 11 Intra Cranial Vascular Lesions 11 9 26 22 Heart Diseases 13 11 3 3 Other Diseases of the Circulatory System 3 7 17 3 Bronchitis 16 6 7 4 Pneumonia 3 8 4 1 Other Respiratory Diseases 5 1 1 — Ulcers—Stomach and Duodenum 4 1 — 1 Diarrhoea—(Under two years) — — 1 3 Other Digestive Diseases 2 — 1 — Nephritis 1 1 2 1 Premature Birth 1 1 4 1 Con. Mai. Birth Injuries—Infant Diseases .... 1 3 2 1 Suicides — 1 2 1 Road Traffic Accidents — — — — Measles — — 8 1 Other Violent Causes 5 1 — — Whooping Cough — — — — Cerebral Spinal Fever 1 — 13 9 All other causes 5 14 1 — Appendicitis — — — 1 Other Maternal Causes — 1 — 1 Sylphillitic Diseases 2 —