[Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Perth City.

  • Perth (Scotland). City Council.
Date:
1923
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Credit: [Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Perth City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (3.) LOCAL DISEASES. The number of deaths registered under this class was 217. 'These causes give a death rate of 6‘5 per 1000, as compared with 8-9 in 1922. No death was attributed to diseases of the tymphatic system, two to a disease of an organ of special sense, viz., the ear, while deaths as the result of “confinement” numbered four, being the same as in the previous year. As has been the case in previous years, deaths from nervous, respiratory and circulatory causes are the most prominent. As regards respiratory troubles, Bronchitis is the commonest, followed by Broncho-pneumonia and Pneumonia. 10 deaths of infants, 2 deaths of children between 1 and 5 years of age, and 15 deaths of persons over 65 years of age occurred from pulmonary trouble. This is a number considerably less than last year. Attention has already been drawn to the number of infantile deaths from respiratory disease, and when we add to that number the number of those dying between the age of one and five years, we have a total of 12—a figure still capable of reduction, but •comparing very favourably witli the number of 25 last year. Nervous diseases account for 57 deaths. No less than 30 deaths took place from apoplexy, and of these the great majority occurred in people over 60 years of age ; in fact, no less than 23 occurred in persons over 65. As regards diseases of the Circulatory System, 43 deaths were attributed to heart disease and 4 to syncope. The number of deaths attributed to “violent” causes during the year, including one of a residenter whose death was registered outside the Burgh, was 11, being the same number as in 1922. Three were due to accidents from vehicles, three from drowning, while two were the result of coal gas poisoning. There falls also to be recorded two deaths from burns, as compared with none in the previous year. 1 am glad to report, however, that during the year no infant death resulted from over-lying. No death was suicidal, as against two in 1922,
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