Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg.
- Johannesburg
- Date:
- [1909]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1 DEATHS. The deaths herein referred to are those of persons who died within the extended Municipal Area as defined by Proclamations 13 of 1902 and 46 of 1903. Race. Deaths. Death-Rate per 1,000. Total. Of Non- Residents. Gross Recorded. Excluding Non- Residents. 1906 to 1907. Whites 1,338 99 14-0 13-0 S. A. Coloured ... 2,257 111 28-6 27'2 Asiatics 166 i 24-4 23-4 All Persons 3,761 217 2' i-8 19-6 1907 to 1908. Whites 1,322 120 13-8 12-6 S. A. Coloured ... 2,314 106 29-3 284) Asiatics 164 o 24-1 23-8 All Persons 3,800 228 2T0 19-7 1908 to 1909. Whites 1,439 92 15T 14T S. A. Coloured .. 2,470 154 31-3 29-5 Asiatics 100 2 14 7 144 All Persons 4,009 248 22 T 20-8 In order to neutralize the errors in comparison of death-rates arising from variations in sex and age constitution of the population of different towns, the Registrar-General of England and Wales has calculated a series of ‘ factors ’ by which the recorded death-rates of the “Great Towns” can be multiplied, so as to make them correctly comparable. Dr. George Turner, Census Commissioner, 1904, very kindly worked out similar ‘factors for correction' for the white population of Johannesburg. They were as follows : For Males, 1'4742489] Females, D2334079 ; Persons, D3912409, calculated on the average English death-rates for 1881-91. The question of applying these factors to the death-rates now calculated on the Census Returns of 1908, has been carefully considered ; but the sex-constitution of the population is not the same as in 1904, and there is no recent information as to age-distribution. Correction for age and sex has, therefore, not been made. Infantile Mortality (i.e., deaths of infants under 1 year per each 1,000 births registered :— In 1906-7 In 1907-8 In 1908-9 For Whites, 140 ; For Coloured, including Asiatics, 340. 121 ; 134 ; 55 55 323. De,\th-Rate in British, Colonial and Foreign Cities.—Appended, for purposes of comparison, are particulars as to the “ Death-Rate per 1,000 from All Causes ” in large cities in other parts of the world :—- 1906. 1907. 1908. 1906. 1907. 1908. Greater London (i.e., Paris 17-5 18-5 17 5 Metropolitan and City Berlin 15-8 15 4 15-4 Police Districts) “ 76 Great Towns ” of 15 1 14-6 138 Trieste 25-7 26-3 24*2 Vienna 17-5 17-3 176 England and Wales ... 15-9 15-4 15-8 Rome 18-7 18-2 18-5 Edinburgh ... 16-0 16-0 15-2 St. Petersburg 25 5 24 7 28‘6 Glasgow 17-8 18-5 17-7 Moscow ... 25'8 27-5 28-0 Dublin 24-1 24-7 23-0 Cairo 36-1 38-4 38-8 Calcutta (including Alexandria 33 T 36-5 30 0 plague deaths) 3D7 37-6 27-8 Durban 109 9 0 9-7 Bombay (including Cape Town 11.1 10-6 129 plague deaths) 54-4 396 39-1 New York 18 3 18-5 16 5 Madras 43 8 40-5 40-6 New Orleans 20-0 22*4 20-3 Sidney 10-7 11-5 10-3 Buenos Ayres 17-1 16-9 158 Brisbane 10-0 12-2 10-2 Except in regard to Durban and Cape Town, these figures are taken from the Annual Summaiy of the Registrar General for England and Wales, 1906-7-8, V.O-H. 1900-3 Statistics.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31487762_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
