Statistics relating to mortality in the mercantile marine / report of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
- Date:
- 1932
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Statistics relating to mortality in the mercantile marine / report of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![merchant seamen and their age distribution at the time covered by the present inquiry, together with the small number of deaths under investigation, have prevented the use of the method of a standardised population normally used by the Registrar General to investigate the mortality for the various age groups, and it has therefore been necessary to resort to that of proportionate mortality (see par. 100). 91. The available population figures related to the numbers of deaths ascribed to various grouped causes contributing to the mortality of merchant seamen provide the following results :— TABLE 6. Deaths Rate Deathe Rate Deaths Rate Nationality. All per Di er Drown- er Causes. | 1,000. | | 1,000. | _ ing. 1,000. Buti. . L edeG | 24-88. 8571, | 20°16 231 i-81 Lascars fe 287 5:45 205 3°89 24 0-46 Foreigners sie 167 11-57 103 7:14 37 2-56 ee Sie 8 Ee | Eee ec eee Sonne remem ven | Hers: Sean | aneeeeenn All Nationalities 3,620 18-60 2,879 14-79 292 1-50 Deaths Rate Deaths | Rate Deaths Rate Nationality. Ini per Guiscid per id & per DIETS aH ggg MUSA okay Gaghiie Feo lecneoe: . : : British ... ey: 164. 1-29 61 0-48 139 1-09 Lascars ie 35 0-66 vin 0-40 2 0-04 Foreigners =p 16 1-11 1] 0-76 oe 2s All Nationalities 215 1-10 93 0-48 141 0-72 92. It will be seen that approximately 80 per cent. of all recorded deaths (all nationalities) are due to Disease, 6 per cent. to Injury and Accident, 4 per cent. to Old Age, and 3 per cent. to Suicide. 93. Having regard to the fact that according to the results tabu- lated in Table 6 above, the deaths of the majority of seamen are due to disease of one kind or another, and that records relating 10 Lascars and Foreigners are incomplete, it becomes necessary to focus attention upon the data relating to British seamen only, and by detailed analyses to endeavour to discover the principal causes responsible for the deaths of these men. By reference to Table 5 (page 64) it will be seen that of the total of 3,166 deaths of British seamen, 634, or 20 per cent., were due to Respiratory Diseases (Nos.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32176338_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
