[Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Bedford Borough.

  • Bedford Borough Council
Date:
1957
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Credit: [Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Bedford Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7. Ca uses of Death Cause of Death Males I'einales /\Lb CAUSbS ... ... ... ... ... ... 260 279 1. Tuberculosis, respiratory ... 2 2. Tuberculosis, other — 3. Syphilitic disease 2 — 4. Diphtheria 1 — 5. Whooping Cough ... — — 6. Meningococcal infections ... — — 7. Acute Poliomyelitis — — 8. Measles — — 9. Other infective and parasitic diseases 1 1 10. Malignant neoplasm, stomach 7 7 11. Malignant neoplasm, lung, bronchus 20 6 12. Malignant neoplasm, breast — 12 13. Malignant neoplasm, uterus —- 9 14. Other malignant and lymphatic neoplasms 22 22 15. Leukaemia, alcukaemia 1 1 16. Diabetes — 2 17. Vascular lesions of nervous system 22 57 18. Coronary diseases, angina 51 32 19. Hypertension, with heart disease 8 7 20. Other heart disease 20 31 21. Other circulatory disease ... 12 14 22. Influenza 4 3 23. Pneumonia 14 17 24. Bronchitis 19 11 25. Other diseases of respiratory system 4 2 26. LJlcer of stomach and duodenum ... 3 — 27. Gastritis, enteritis and diarrhoea ... .... 2 6 28. Nephritis and nephrosis ... 2 1 29. Hyperplasia of prostate ... 4 — 30. Pregnancy, childbirth, abortion ... — — 31. Congenita] malformations ... 4 1 32. Other defined and ilLdefined diseases 19 23 3 3. Motor vehicle accidents 6 1 34. All other accidents 6 7 25. Suicide 4 6 36. Homicide and operations of war ... In commenting on causes of death, reference may be made to: d'uberculosis caused ‘d deaths as comp)ared with S in the previous year. There were 105 deaths from Cancer, now a serious cause of fllness, of which d() were of the lung or bronchus. Diseases attributed to old age caused d54 deaths and bronchitis 30 deaths, the latter including 19 men. It may be of interest to note that in 195() the death rate of bron- chitis in this country was IH times higher than in Scandinavia and 11 times more than in the U.S.A. This complaint caused dO.4 million days of incapacity for men and O.d million for women in a year. There were seven fatal road accidents, 0 of which occurred in the Borough. Four were of elderly people; 1 a pedestrian of 27 years; a child of 4 years; and one, a man of 50 years of age, whose death did not occur in Bedford.