[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Perth City.

  • Perth (Scotland). City Council.
Date:
1929
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Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Perth City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As regards the sex, 66 cases occurred among females and 60 among males; while as regards the age period, 33 occurred among children under 0 years of age, or 26 per cent. This is a higher percentage than the previous year, when it stood at 12 per cent. As regards the other age periods, 71 or 56 per cent, occurred between 5 and 15 years, 15 or 12 per cent, between 15 and 25 years, and 6 or 4 per cent, between 25 and 45 years, while 1 occurred over 45 years. As regards the Ward Distribution, Ward 6 is the lowest with 2 1 per 1000, followed by Ward 5 with 3‘3 per 1000. Ward 1, followed by Ward 3, had the highest. The figures relating to the various Wards for 1929, with comparison for 1928, are asunder:— Cases 1928. Ward 1 29 or 4'6 per 1000, 1 9 per 1000. Ward 2 25 or 3 ‘7 2-7 >> *j 1 n Ward 3 23 or 4-3 )> 5‘4 ,, Ward 4 19 or 3-6 >> 4-8 ,, Ward 5 23 or 3 3 >) 2*7 ,, Wai d 6 7 or 2-1 „ 3-6 126 The number removed to Hospital was 106, or 84 per cent, of the whole. In the previous year the percentage was 89. Although there were several cases in which the type of fever was virulent, with a corresponding degree of complications, it is pleasing to report that not a single death resulted from this cause throughout the year. In the previous year there Avas one death.
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