[Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunbarton County Council.

  • Dumbartonshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1934
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Credit: [Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunbarton County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COUNTY OF DUNBARTON. TABLE X.—MATERNITY SERVICE AND CHILD WELFARE, 1934. CAUSES OF DEATH-CHILDREN UNDER ONE YEAR. , , — —— Cause of Death. Under 1 Week. 1 Week, ant under 4 Weeks. Total under 4 Weeks. 4 Weeks, am under 3 Months. 3 Months, an tinder 0 Months. i = 5 ; = s| S =2 ’ 3 « i® Total Deaths under 1 Year. Rate per 1,000 Births. Smallpox, Chickenpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, 1 1 ] 1 •79 Whooping-cough, - Diphtheria, - 1 2 3 2-36 Cerebro-Spinal Menin- gitis, .... i 1 •79 Erysipelas, - Tuberculous Meningitis, Other Tuberculous Dis- 1 1 ■79 eases, ... Meningitis (not Tuber- culous), Hydrocephalus, Convulsions, - 1 1 1 •79 Pneumonia (all forms), - 1 1 5 4 1 11 S-65 Bronchitis, - 4 3 1 S 6-29 Diarrhoea and Enteritis, 1 2 3 1 1 2 7 5 50 Other Digestive Diseases, 1 1 2 2 4 315 Congenital Malforma- tions, 3 3 2-36 Congenital Heart, 1 i 1 •79 Premature Birth, 23 5 28 1 • • • 29 22-79 Atrophy, Debility, and Marasmus, 3 7 10 1 It 8-65 Atelectasis, - 1 1 1 •79 Injury at Birth, - Suffocation, overlaying, Syphilis, - - Rickets, o 2 1 ... 3 2 36 All other causes, - o i 3 1 1 | 5 3-93 Total, 34 ■»i 52 19 13 1 (5 90 70'78 Notr.—Although the total number of infant deaths agrees with that of the Registrar Oeneriil, the actual totals are not quite the same. This is due solely to the fact t hat general practitioners in signing death certificates are apt to put two or more causes of death, each of which might ho fatal. In selecting the most likely cause of death for statistical pur- poses the Registrar (leneral has probably selected one cause and I have selected another.