[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Wycombe R.D.C.

  • High Wycombe (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Wycombe R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The seventeen deaths were attributab Congenital Heart Disease ... Co ngenital Allecasis of lungs Prematurity Bronchitis Convulsions Hydrocephalus Gastric Enteritis Cerebral Haemorrhage Hernia Intracranial haemorrhage Other defined diseases e to the following 0 1 2 2 6 es; 31 Females-49. es; 30 Females = 49 in 936. Deaths from Cancer (all ages) —18 IVIa as compared with 19 Mai and 21 Males; 24 Females-45 in 1935. Deaths from Measles (all ages) and Whooping Cough (all ages) =Nii. TABLES OF DEATHS (All causes). Males. Females. 1. Ail Causes Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 163 170 2. Measles — — 3. Scarlet fever — — 4. Whooping Cough — — 5. Diphtheria — — 6. influenza 7 15 7. Encephalitis lethargica — — 8. Cerebro Spinal Fever — — 9. Tuberculosis of respiratory system 3 4 10. Tuberculosis, other diseases 2 — 1 1. Syphilis — — 12. General paralysis of the insane—tabes dorsalis 1 — 13. Cancer, malignant disease 18 31 14. Diabetes — 4 15. Cerebral Haemorrhage, etc 8 10 16. Heart disease 34 46 1 7. Aneurism — 2 18. Other circulatory diseases 1 7 8 19. Bronchitis 7 6 20. Pneumonia (all forms) 6 5 21. Other respiratory diseases 3 1 22. Peptic ulcer 4 — 23. Diarrhoea, etc. (under two years) 1 — 24. Appendicitis 1 1 25. Cirrhosis of the liver 1 — 26. Other diseases of liver, etc 1 —