[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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    5 TABLE III. Causes of Death at all Ages in each District during the Year 1949. URBAN DISTRICTS. CAUSES OF DEATH. Bridgwater. Burnham. Chard. I Clevedon. Crewkerne. I Frome. Glastonbury. Ilminster. I Keynsham. Minehead. N orton-Radstock. Portishead. I Shepton Mallet. I Street. I Taunton. W.ATCHET. 1 Wellington. Wells. Weston-super-Mare. 1 Yeovil. Total Urb.an Districts. 1 County Total. Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cerebro spinal fever 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 Scarlet fever 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 Tuberculosis of respir. system.. H 1 3 1 0 5 4 1 3 7 3 1 2 3 8 0 4 1 17 11 83 141 Other forms of tuberculosis ... 1) 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 G 2 0 0 0 1 1 8 18 Syphilitic diseases 1 0 1 0 0 0 G 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 5 9 Influenza 3 2 1 3 0 3 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 23 55 Measles 0 0 0 0 0 0 (, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Acute poliomyelitis and polio-encephalitis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 l) 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 6 Acute inf. encephalitis 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 Cancer of hue. cavity & cesoph. (M), uterus (F) 4 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 o 0 0 0 5' 1 2 1 9 6 36 69 Cancer of stomach & duodenum 0 3 2 2 4 5 G 0 1 5 2 1 0 3 16 0 5 4 17 9 85 177 Cancer of breast 5 3 1 1 1 4 1 2 0 3 1 1 0 2 6 0 0 0 7j 7 45 91 Cancer of all other sites 22 15 9 22 6 17 8 3 8 9 12 7 4 8 37 6 6 7 55 28 289 580 Diabetes 3 0 0 1 0 0 G 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 1 0 0 1 2 13 39 Intra-cranial vascular lesions ... 29 23 7 21 4 24 G 5 24 19 9 5 13 ’.i 43 4 19 6 991 38 400 810 Heart disease 104 34 23 43 13 62 28 3 33 57 38 13 17 24 1441 9 34 22 2141 9111006 2023 Other diseases of circ. system... 11 8 4 8 2 4 1 1 1 6 6 0 2 1 25 1 6 0 151 15 117 226 Bronchitis 11 2 6 6 5 9 li 2 4 5 2 2 3 o O 18 4 1 2 30 9 127 244 Pneumonia 7 1 1 2 2 9 3 2 4 8 5 3 3 2 16 3 1 1 17] 10 100 198 ■ Other respiratory disease 5 2 0 5 1 0 2 0 1 1 5 3 0 0 7 0 0 0 9 1 43 81 Ulcer of stomach or duodenum 4 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 4 1 0 0 7 3 31 50 Diarrhoea, under 2 years 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 8 Appendicitis 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 6 16 Other digestive diseases 3 1 1 7 1 4 1 2 1 3 2 0 3 1 5 1 1 2 16 5 60 126 Nephritis 6 8 0 8 1 8 4 0 4 3 9 5 3 4 14 0 5 r* i 11 5 105 182 Puerperal and post-abort, sepsis 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 Other maternal causes 0 0 0 0 0 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 Premature birth 5 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 1 4 20 57 Congenital malformations, birth injuries, infantile diseases ... 8 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 18 0 2' 1 8 10 59' 136 Suicide 2 1 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 1 3 2 0 1 0 0 2 1 3 0 22 6(3 Road traffic accidents ... 5 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 17 58 Other violent causes 10 2 1 5 1 3 V 3 3 0 3 0 O' 0 5 1 1 1 14 6 61 133 All other causes 29 5 7 29 7 20 7 2 8 7 14 8 2 4 33 3 n / 15 ()3 18 288 554