[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough.

  • Berwick-upon-Tweed (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Causes of Death The following table shews the classification of deaths from all causes (Registrar General’s figures) :— I Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever M. I F. Total 2 Cerebro-spinal Fever 3 Scarlet Fever 4 Whooping Cough 5 Diphtheria 6 Tuberculosis of respiratory system 2 4 6 7 Other forms of Tuberculosis I I 8 Syphilitic diseases 9 Influenza I I lO Measles 11 Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioenchephalitis 12 Acute infectious enchephalitis 13 Cancer of bucal cavity (M) uterus (F) I 2 3 14 Cancer of stomach and duodenum 5 6 11 15 Cancer of breast 16 Cancer of all other sites 7 5 12 17 Diabetes I I 18 Intr-cranial vascular lesions 3 10 13 19 Heart Desease 34 30 64 20 Other diseases of circulatory system 5 2 7 21 Bronchitis 2 I 3 22 Pneumonia I 1 2 23 Other respiratory diseases 2 2 24 Ulcer of stomach or duodenum 25 Diarrhoea, under 2 years 26 Appendicitis 27 Other digestive diseases I 2 3 28 Nephritis I I 29 Puerperal and post-abortive sepsis 30 Other maternal causes 31 Premature birth 32 Congenital malformation, birth injury, etc. I I 33 Suicide I I 34 Road traffic accidents 2 2 35 Other violent causes 5 5 3^^ All other causes 13 18 31 171