[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam].

  • Sutton and Cheam (London, England). Borough Council.
Date:
[1944?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CAUSES OP DEATH IN THE BOROUGH OF SUTTON AND CHEAM DURING 1943 M. P. - . • . ..a Total 1 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers - - - 2 Cerebro-spinal fever 1 2 3 3 Scarlet Fever , - - - 4 Whooping Cough 1 - 1 5 Diphtheria - 1 1 6 Tuberculosis of rercpiicatory system 24 14 38 7 Other forms of tuberculosis 3 2 5 8 Syphilitic diseases 3 1 4 9 Influenza 9 10 19 10 Measles 1 1 11 Acute poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis 1 - 1 12 Acute infective encephalitin - - 13 Cancer of buccal cavity 3 6 9 14 Cancer of stomach and duodenum 11 S 19 15 Cancer of breast - 20 20 16 Cancer of all other sites 39 40 79 17 Diabetes - 4 4 18 Intracranial vascular lesions 32 51 83 19 Heart disease 117 114 231 20 Other diseases of circulatory system 11 16 27 21 Bronchitis 13 13 26 22 Pneumonia 22 13 35 23 Other respiratory diseases 8 5 13 24 Ulcer of stomach or duodenum 6 4 10 25 Diarrhoea under 2 year 1 3 4 26 Aopendiciti3 2 0 2 27 Other digestive diseases 6 11 17 28 Nephritis 5 3 8 29 Puerperal sepsis - 1 1 30 Other maternal causes - - - 31 Premature birth 6 8 14 32 Congenital malformations, birth injuries and infantile diseases 10 7 17 33 Suicide 1 1 2 34 Road traffic accidents 7 2 9 1 35 Other Violent causes 4 8 12 36 All other causes 32 31 63 378 400 778 (6)