FOI reference: FOI-2024-1851
You asked
I am looking for statistics on the total number of Pulmonary Disease-related deaths by London Borough, for each of the years you hold these data.
We said
Our mortality data comes from the information collected at death registration. All of the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). From all of these causes an underlying cause of death is selected using ICD-10 coding rules.
The underlying cause of death is defined by WHO as:
a) the disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death, or b) the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury.
The information you have requested is available as part of our explorable dataset available on our NOMIS webservice. Instructions for accessing the information are as follows.
1. Select 'Life events'.
2. Select 'Mortality statistics - underlying cause, sex and age (2013 to 2022)'.
3. Select the geography. London Boroughs are contained within the 'local authorities: county / unitary (as of April 2021)' list.
4. Select Age - All ages or 5-year age bands.
5. Select Gender - Total or Male/Female.
6. Select rates - All deaths, rates, or percentage of population, for example. 7. Select causes of death (ICD10 code search is available).
8. Select format (Excel or CSV for example).
Please note:
1. Figures are for deaths registered rather than deaths occurring in a given period. For more information see our Impact of Registration Delays publication.
2. For deaths of those aged over 28 days, the Tenth Revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) has been used to classify cause of death. The ICD is used to translate diagnoses of diseases and other health problems from words into alphanumeric code to permit easier storage, retrieval and analysis. For deaths registered from 1 January 2022, cause of death is coded to the ICD-10 classification using MUSE 5.8 software. Deaths registered between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 were coded to the using MUSE 5.5 and previous years were coded to IRIS 4.2.3. For more information click here.
3. Figures by underlying cause exclude neonatal deaths as it is not possible to identify a single underlying cause for neonatal deaths or stillbirths. More information can be found in Section 6 of our User Guide to Infant and Child Mortality Statistics. For further information, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.