Prevention of tuberculosis and how it can be affected by the care and isolation of advanced cases / edited under the supervision of The Countess of Aberdeen.
- International Council on Women. Standing Committee on Public Health.
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Prevention of tuberculosis and how it can be affected by the care and isolation of advanced cases / edited under the supervision of The Countess of Aberdeen. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![IO Tuberculosis was responsible for 10.5 per cent of the mortality from all causes in England and Wales (in 1909), [72nd. Annual Report Registrar-General of Births, Marriages and Deaths (1909). p. lxxii. 1.] Phthisis accounted for 71 per cent of the total Tuberculosis mortality. In Scotland, in 1909, the deaths from the principal in- fectious diseases, namely smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, in- fluenza, whooping cough, diphtheria, and “fevers”, amounted to 10.5 per 10,000, and of those from phthisis to 12.8 per 10,000, and from all Tubercular diseases to 19.8. Ireland: — The deaths from the principal epidemic diseases, inclusive of influenza, and excluding diarrhoea, in the year 1911, corresponded to a rate of 7.5 per 10000. In that year the death rate for Pulmonary Tuberculosis was 17.3, and for All Forms of Tuberculosis it was 22.0 per 10,000 deaths. The corresponding rates in 1910 were, for epidemic diseases 9.9 per 10,000, for pulmonary tuberculosis 17.2 per 10,000, and for all forms of tuberculous disease 22.9 per 10,000, and in 1909 the corresponding rates were 8.7 per 10,000; 18.4 per 10,000; and 24.2 per 10,000 of all deaths re- gistered in Ireland during that year. In Norway in 1909, the actual number of deaths was 27060. Of these 3,997 were from Phthisis, or 51.72 % of the total Tuberculosis mortality. In Belgrade (Servia) in 1908 with 2,088 deaths, 575 were from Phthisis, 714 from Tuberculosis in all forms, 67 from cancer, 95 from gastro-enteritis, 66 from old age, 235 from diseases of the respiratory organs, 266 from diseases of the nervous system, and 178 from those of the circulatory system. In Cape Province (S. Africa) in 1908, out of a total of 10,684 deaths, 1.787 were from Tuberculosis in all forms. The following table shows the percentage of deaths from Phthisis and Tuberculosis on deaths from all causes in Eng- land, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from the year 1900 to 1910.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22474389_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
