[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough.

  • Darlington (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE II. Deaths occurred from the following causes :— WARD Harrowgate Hill North Road j Cockerton ■S a ti x. ■4J f-4 o [ Pierremont Central CO cd w 73 u Eastbourne South Total Inward Transfers Grand Total | 1 Typhoid and paratyph- phoid fevers • . . 2 Cere bro-spinal fever ... 1 3 Scarlet fever . . . ... 4 Whooping cough . . . . . . !... 5 Diphtheria i • • • . . . ... ... 6 Tuberculosis of respir- j ato ry system ... 4 3 1 5 4 3 3 6 3 32 2 34 7 Other forms of tuber- culosis , . . 1 1 1 3 i 4 8 Syphilitic disease 1 1 . . . 1 1 4 i 5 9 Influenza . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Measles ... 11 Acute poliomyelitis l and polioencephalitis . .. ... . . . 1 12 Acute infectious en- cephalitis . . . . . . ... ... . .. 1 ••• . .. ... ... 13m Cancer of buccal cavity and oesophagus 1 1 2 1 1 1 7 i 8 13f Cancer of uterus • . . 1 ... • . . . . . i 2 1 1 3 9 9 14 Cancer of stomach and duodenum 5 2 4 4 2 6 1 4 2 1 31 31 15 Cancer of breast 2 ... 1 2 2 2 2 ... 2 2 15 15 16 Cancer of all other sites 9 7 16 8 6 11 11 11 11 4 94 4 98 17 Diabetes 1 . . . • . . . . . 1 ... l 3 3 18 Intra-cranial vascular lesions 1 3 4 4 4 9 6 6 5 11 53 2 55 19 Heart disease 7 9 18 10 25 10 15 18 24 27 163 6 169 20 Other diseases of the circulatory system ... 19 12 16 11 22 16 11 26 18 18 169 8 177 21 Bronchitis 10 4 6 5 1 4 . . . 3 6 2 41 41 22 Pneumonia 4 7 4 4 2 11 4 7 8 2 53 2 55 23 Other respiratory diseases . . . ... ... ... 1 2 2 4 5 ... 14 i 15 24 Ulceration of the stom- ach or duodenum • • • ... 1 1 . .. i 1 • . • 1 2 7 7 25 Diarrhoea (under 2 yrs. of age) . . . 1 1 1 . . . i 1 2 1 8 8 26 Appendicitis 1 ... ... 1 . .. 1 3 i 4 27 Other digestive diseases 1 2 5 1 ... 5 3 2 19 i 20 28 Nephritis 2 1 ... i 1 i ... 2 1 2 11 11 29 Puerperal and post- abortive sepsis ... i ... . ... 1 1 30 Other maternal causes ... ... ... . . . ... 1 1 1 31 Premature birth i 3 3 2 2 2 i 14 i 15 32 Congenital malform- ations, birth injury, infantile disease 2 .... 3 j 9 2 i 6 1 3 20 20 33 Suicide ... • • • 1 ... I ... . . . 1 o 9 4 34 Road traffic accidents ... 2 o .> . •. i 2 2 1 1 12 L2 35 Other violent causes ... i 2 1 3 2 2 1 12 4 16 36 All other causes 17 22 8 9 7 13 11 19 14 15 135 7 L42 Totals 87 82 I 75 87 100 80 124 107 03 136 44 180