[Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Pembrokeshire County Council.

  • Pembrokeshire (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1939
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Credit: [Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Pembrokeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There were 67 Deaths attributable to notifiable dis- ease, excluding Tuberculosis. The nine chief causes of death, with the corresponding r)crccntages of total deaths, were;— (1) Heart Disease ; 23.5 (2) Caincer ; 13.2 (3i Circulatory IDiseases ; 6.2 (1) Nephritis 3.4 (5) Pihlhisis 9.2 (6) Cerebral Haemorrhage 4.3 (7) Pneumonia. 4.4 (9) Congenital Debility 3.4 (;») Senility 5.8 Table of the Nine Chief Causes of Death;— The Nine Chief Causes of Death. Urban Rural Whole County Percentage of Total Deaths d 'Z. Rata d 2 Rate i d Rate Urban Rural Whole County Heart 1 142 |3.5 1 151 1 3.4 1 293 1 3.5 1 24.0 1 23.1 23.5 Cancer 1 2 1.7 92 1 2.1 164 1.9 12.2 14.1 13,2 Circulatory Diseases 1 i 25 1 .62 53 1.2 78 .93 4.2 8.1 6.-2 Phthisis 1 25 .62 18 .41 43 .51 4.2 2.7 3.4 Cerebral Ha'inorrhage 1 1 43 1 1.07 59 1.3 102 1.2 7.2 9.0 8.2 Nej>] iritis 25 1 .62 1 29 1 .66 ,54 .64 .| 4.2 1 4,4 4.3 Pneumania 31 1 v77 1 24 i ,.55 55 ..65 1 5.2 1 3.6 4.4 Congenital Debility l' 21 * .52 22 1 .50 1 43 1 .51 i 3.5 3.3 3.4 Senility 00 1 39 1 .89 1 73 1 -871 5.7 5.9 5.8 Deaths from women in, or in consequence of, child- birth ;— (a) From Sepsis 2 (b) Other Causes ^ INFANT MORTALITY. The Infant Mortality Rate is calculated on the number of deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births. t here were 71 deaths of children under one year of age, giving a death rate of 50.4, compared with a rate of 45 for the previous year.