[Report 1972] / Medical Officer of Health, Eccles Borough.

  • Eccles (Greater Manchester, England). Borough Council.
Date:
1972
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Credit: [Report 1972] / Medical Officer of Health, Eccles Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BOROUn!-! OF ECCLES. guses of death for the year 1972, Classified under the Headings of the Abbreviated List of International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death, ] Causes of Dsath Males ' p’emsles Totals 1 Cholera Z Typhoid Fever - - - I Bacillary dysentery and aTiocbiasis - - • 4 Enteritis and other dlarrinija:-:! diseases 5 Tuberculosis of reepiracery Eystem 1 1 5 (l) Late effects of respiratory tuberculosis - - ! (2) Other tuberculosis - - • 7 Plague > - 8 Diphtheria •- ■ - 19 liihooping cough - - - 0 Streptococcal sore throat and scarlet fever - >■ - 1 Meningococcal infection - . • • ^ - 2 Acute poliomyelitis - - - 3 Smallpox - - - 4 Measles - 5 Typhus and other rickettsioses - . . 6 Malaria • 7 Syphilis and its sequelae - - - •'.il afchor infective and parasitic diseases 2 1 3 5 (3) Malignant neoplasm - Stomach 8 2 10 (6) - Lung, bronchus 29 4- 33 (7) - Breast 9 9 (B) - Uterus > 4 : 4 (lO) Leukaemia 2 2 4 (1,2,4,5,9,11) other malignant neoplasms 32 25 ■ 57 3 Benign neoplasms & neoplasms of unspecified nature - 1 1 1 Diabetes mellitus • 3 3 Z Avitaminoses and other nutritional deficiency - - - 5 Anaemias 2 2 4 4 Meningitis - 1 1 Active rheumatic fever - - - t Chronic rheu.matic heart disease - 6 6 7 Hypertensive disease 2 5 7 :( 3 Ischaemic heart disease 80 78 158 J Other forms of heart disease 5 10 15 0 Cerebrovascular disease 27 46 73 l] L Influanza 12 • 5 17 1 ( Z Pneumonia 10 18 28 ■ 3 (l) Bronchitis, and emphysema 20 7 27 (2) Asthma ^ { 2 2 I4 Peptic ulcer 1 - 1 !' Appendicitis - - - Intestinal obstrjjction and hernia 2 2 4 !■ 7 Cirrhosis of liver - - - !i( 3 . Nephritis and nephrosis 1 1 2 !)( 3 i N/yperplasia of prostate - (0 Abortion - •• il ' Other complications of pregnancy - - • t2 Congenital anomalies 1 3 • 4 13 Birth injury * ‘ 2. - ■ 2 ’ 14 Other causes of perinatal mortality - - - , 15 Symptoms and ill-defined conditions 1 3 i 4 : i6 (l) Other endrocine, etc, diseases 1 - 1 ■ (2) Other diseases of blood - 2 2 (3) Mental disorders - - - (4) Multiple sclerosis - - - (5) Other diseases of nervous systems 3 6 9 (6) Other diseases of circulatory system 18 32 50 (7) Other diseases of respiratory system 3 5 8 (8) Other diseases of digestive system 2 3 5 (9) Other diseases of genito-urinary system - - - (10) Diseases of the skin - - - (11) Diseases of musculo-skeletal system 2 1 3 \7 Motor vehicle accidents 4 - 4 is All other accidents 3 7 10 49 Suicide and self-inflicted injuries 1 - 1 50 All other external causes 1 — 1 278 296 574