[Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Exmouth U.D.C.

  • Exmouth (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1960
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Credit: [Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Exmouth U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9 The causes of death of ’the 3 infants -were as follov/s:-- 1 I 1 I I 1 1 1 1 1 Sex Ivl j'-^ge Go use of jjeath I 14 hours Congenital h^i-lformations i I 6 weeks I -.sphyxia and suffocation | I 1 accidental!, suotcoined ; . ) ’ I I v/hen ciiild turned over [ \ 1 in the prarn. ) ) 3 itonths ] ^-^piration of voniit I 8. CaNCaR Deaths from Cancer i/.creased from 50 in 1959 to 61 in I9605 said i ■> relation to the tot.J. number of deatns^ the rate per cent increasea from 15.6>^ in 1959 to I..7/^’ I960. The parts of the body af‘fected are given i,. the following table: - Bite L'-ales 1 Pemales i total Stomach i 5 1 1 1 3 8 Lung & Bronchus Breast Uterus iHl other sites Total -i-. I I n I .a. I h- \ 11 k 18 ! 14 31 31 ; 19 61 ■ \ The liciuence of deatns froit Cancer during the last 10 years is as follows;- 195_2j_ 1953__ 1954j, 1935 ■__y36 : 1957 ^ 1958 i I960 ho. of cases i 50 1 48 ’■ 39 1 55 ' 46 • 1 1 ^ ; 52 VO 1 50 61 Percentage ! 1 * ’ ! 1 1 T 1 1 1 1 1 total I'To. of j j ; ) » ! ( deaths j 15.0 { 17.5 j 14.4 ! 1^.9 : 15-8 1 13.5 ' 18.8 I 17.5 ! 13.6: 16.7 Rare per ‘ i ' ' ^ 1 1 1 ; 1 1,000 1 ; ! ' * ■resident i 1.9I J 1.8 j 2,23 * 3.16 ! 2.62 population ; ' i ■ ' : 1 . 2.34 ; 2.88 \ i 3.14 1 1 I ^-4 . 1 3.3 9. IflBCTIOuS DIdB.a.ibS D’uring 1::;60, 180 cases of notifiable ijifectious aiseases were no..ifiecL, v/hich is 78 more than in the previous y^ar. (a) Measles -'here were 154 Cases of .leasles in 19>10 ;ind these were of a mild nrbure.