[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Somerset County Council.

  • Somerset Council
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Somerset County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE II. Causes of Death at all Ages in each District during the Year 1949. BUKAL DISTEICTS. CAUSES OF DEATH. Axbridge. Bath AVON. Bridgwater. [ Chard. Glutton. Dulverton. Frome. Langport. 1 Long Ashton' [ Shepton Mallet. ; Taunton. | Wellington. Wells. WiLLITON. WiNCANTON. Yeovil. Total Rural Districts. Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 q\ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cerebro spinal fever . 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 Scarlet fever . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Whooping cough . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Diphtheria . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tuberculosis of respir. system.. 5 6 6 0 6 3 0 3 2 3 5 1 3 6 4 5 58 Other forms of tuberculosis ... 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 10 Syphilitic diseases 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 Influenza . 2 6 6 2 0 0 1 0 3 3 1 0 2 2 2 2 32 Measles 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Acute poliomyelitis and polio-encephalitis 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Acute inf. encephalitis 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 Cancer of hue. cavity & oesoph. (M), uterus (F) . 5 3 0 1 3 0 1 8 2 1 2 1 0 1 1 4 33 Cancer of stomach & duodenum 7 6 8 4 13 2 2 6 7 4 7 4 1 4 5 12 92 Cancer of breast . 8 7 0 3 2 0 0 2 7 3 2 5 1 2 1 3 46 Cancer of all other sites 27 21 20 12 19 7 14 10 28 12 30 6 14 21 18 32 291 ^3ld]36ti08 ••• ••• 4 3 1 1 1 0 1 2 0 1 4 1 0 2 5 0 26 Intra-cranial vascular lesions ... 61 32 35 23 29 2 14 28 34 15 30 13 16 30 30 28 410 Heart disease no 98 70 54 61 23 58 64 90 48 66 35 42 53 74 71 1017 Other diseases of circ. system.., 7 6 11 5 7 4 6 6 7 2 10 7 1 5 16 10 109 Bronchitis ... . 7 11 16 10 10 4 7 1 6 5 9 5 2 6 4 14 117 Pneumonia . 11 10 6 4 6 3 2 7 7 9 9 2 9 5 6 2 98 Other respiratory disease 3 2 3 2 2 0 3 3 2 2 4 1 1 3 2 5 38 Ulcer of stomach or duodenum 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 1 19 Diarrhoea, under 2 years 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 Appendicitis . 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 10 Other digestive diseases / 7 6 4 4 2 1 2 2 7 2 4 2 5 6 6 66 Nephritis ... . 10 6 8 5 4 1 3 3 9 4 3 2 3 6 8 2 77 Puerperal and post-abort, sepsis 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Other maternal causes 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 Premature birth . 2 4 8 1 0 3 3 2 0 3 0 0 0 3 6 37 Congenital malformations, birth injuries, infantile diseases ... 9 4 7 3 9 0 0 9 6 6 3 5 2 3 6 5 77 Suicide . 3 2 3 2 4 1 2 1 3 4 2 1 3 1 3 3 38 Road traffic accidents ... 1 7 2 3 4 0 4 1 2 2 6 1 1 2 5 0 41 Other violent causes . 10 8 3 5 2 1 2 5 6 2 7 1 1 6 7 6 72 All other causes . 31 22 12 19 18 6 7 10 26 11 18 13 13 16 17 27 266 All causes 328 281 234 165 209 59 131 176 256 147 230 113 119 184 223 24813103 1