[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen County Council.

  • Aberdeenshire (Scotland). Council
Date:
1929
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Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Deaths and Death-rate. Making correction for transfers, we find that the deaths amounted to 1,460 —785 males and 725 females. This represents a death-rate of 13'3 per thousand of estimated population, as compared with 13'4 in 1928. The total number of deaths registered in Scotland in 1929 was 70,917, which represents a death-rate of 14’5 per thousand. Causes of Death. The principal causes of death, with the number of deaths attributable to the various well-defined diseases or groups of diseases, are given hereunder :— Organic disease of the heart and blood vessels . . . 478 deaths. fiespiratory diseases— (Excluding tuberculosis and influenza.) Pneumonia 81 Bronchitis 65 ► 157 Other lung diseases 11 Cancer ..... Tuberculosis— 143 »5 Pulmonary 54 ■ 79 Non-pulmonary 25 Kidney disease Chief epidemic diseases— 38 Diarrhoea and Enteritis . 14 Whooping Cough . 11 Diphtheria Measles .... 5 ► 39 >> Scarlet Fever 6 Enteric Fever 3 Appendicitis .... 20 „ Influenza .... 36 )) Puerperal Sepsis . o O „ Diseases of early infancy and malformations . 91 » Violence .... 64 The outstanding features in the causes of death, as compared with 1928, are :— (1) 43 more deaths from organic disease of the heart and blood vessels— the most common cause of death. (2) 23 more deaths from influenza, which was also present in epidemic form in the City of Aberdeen in 1929. (3) 29 fewer deaths from tuberculosis. There was a marked diminution in the number of deaths both from pulmonary and non-pulmonary tuber- culosis. (4) A slight increase in the number of deaths from cancer. The Scottish death-rate from cancer was 145, whereas the County rate was 130. 2 MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY FROM INFECTIOUS DISEASES. (a) Notifiable Infectious Diseases. Scarlet Fever. The number of cases of scarlet fever notified in the Districts and Burghs ■during the past five years was as follows :— 1929 1928 1927 1926 1925 356 cases 577 „ 603 „ 627 „ 398 ,,
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