Maps elsewhere: How Britain dies

Mark Easton's mapping project this week is a 17-map set showing how cause of death varies in Britain by age and geography:

... As we move on to the next age band, 15-19, the shades on the map change radically. In most places, the most common cause of death for older teenagers is transport but in many urban areas it is suicide or undetermined intent. Two neighbourhoods in Glasgow have homicide as the most common cause of death for this age group.

As we move into the late twenties, we begin to see cancer creeping into the picture and by ages 30-34, the map colours change radically again, with cancer now dominant, particularly in rural areas. In other rural neighbourhoods we start to see cardiovascular causes appearing.

By the ages of 35-39 the map is dominated by cancer as the most common cause of death, but cardiovascular causes are now becoming evident in northern urban areas. There then follows a series of maps covering the five-year age bands from 40-44 through to 70-74.

On all of these maps the most common causes of death are cardiovascular or cancer and they show the changing geographical variation across these years of age. At younger ages cardiovascular causes dominate in the northern parts of the country and London, and gradually extend southwards and eastwards.

By ages 65-69, cardiovascular is the most common cause of death across almost all of the country, apart from a ring in the south east around London where cancer dominates.

Comments

[ontario md]

the northwest[lancashire] and glasgow are the most deprived money/jobs/socially and the worst.
is there an ontario ices map?
ices =institute of collaborative sciences.
ontario/canada

[OLDTIMER]

Interesting map of hometowns of our contemporary War Dead.
Any way you can do the same re the Great War and the Second World War, with the massive numbers? These communities themselves suffered real loss, as well as those related to them by blood. And re the CEF, many were also remembered in their overseas hometowns. As Kipling noted in his text for the inscription on the Cenotaph being raised in Sault Ste. Marie:
From little towns in a far land we came,
To save our honour and a world aflame.
By little towns in a far land we sleep;
And trust that world we won for you to keep

[pcain]

Hi, Oldtimer -

We did have something like that in mind for this week, but were denied access to the necessary records. I've just started an appeal of that decision, but unfortunately that process can take months.