[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council.

  • Fife (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES. These include enteric (or typhoid) fever, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria and diarrhoea and enteritis (under two years) and the number of deaths caused by them during 1925 is shown in the following table:— Principal Epidemic Diseases, Deaths and Rates, 1925. Disease. Cupar Dun- ferm- Kirk- caldy Dist. St. An- drews Dist. Fife County Dist. line Dist. Num- ber Rate per 1000 Typhoid Fever 1 ! 2 0*01 Measles ... ] 9 6 1 17 0T5 Scarlet Fever 2 1 1 2 6 0 05 Whooping Cough ... 1 7 11 2 21 0-18 Diphtheria Diarrhoea and Enteritis — 1 2 — 3 0*02 (under 2 years) 1 9 14 — 24 0*21 Total 5 28 34 6 73 0-65 Rate per 1000 0*33 0-77 076 0-40 0 65 — The deaths due to the principal epidemic diseases numbered seventy-three during 1925, as against forty-seven in 1924 and seventy-seven in 1923. There were two deaths from typhoid fever during 1925 : none occurred in 1924. Scarlet fever caused six deaths, as against one in 1924. Diphtheria accounted for three deaths, the same number as in 1924. Diarrhoea and enteritis yielded twenty-four deaths, as against twenty in 1924. Measles caused seventeen deaths, com- pared with twelve in 1924, while whooping-cough caused twenty-one deaths, as against eleven deaths in 1924. % With the exception of diphtheria, which had a similar number of deaths recorded in 1924, all other causes of death from the prin- cipal epidemic diseases showed an appreciable increase over the cor- responding figures for 1924. Scarlet fever was generally prevalent in epidemic form through- out the large centres of population in Scotland during the autumn months of 1925. The infection was common in Fife during the latter half of the year and the disease was more virulent in type than of recent years.