[Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough.

  • Burton upon Trent (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1934
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Credit: [Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Registrar General has issued comparability factors l)y which the crude death rate of the area should be multiplied in order to make it comparable from a mortality ])oint of view with the crude death rate of the country as a whole or with the mortality of any other local area, the crude death rate of which shoidd be similarly mollified with its own factor for the purpose. This fiictor is to correct the variation in the statistics in the different areas which are due to different proportions in the popidations of sex and age groups. The comparability factor for Burton upon Trent is -98. When applied to the crude death rate of 11’6 this gives a net death rate of 11-37 which has to be compared with 11-8 for the whole of England and Wales. Heart disease, as always in these modern days, was again the prineipal cause of death as it was responsible for 132 deaths. Cerebral Haemorrhage caused 26 deaths and other circulatory diseases 31 deaths, so that diseases of the circulation in all accounted for 189 deaths, or 33 per cent, of the total, compared with 31 per cent, in the two preceding years. Di.sease of the lungs and respiratory system, excluding Tuber- culosis, caused 10 per cent, of the total deaths compared with 7-3 per cent, in 1933. Cancer was the cause of 65 deaths or 13 less than in 1933. This gives a cancer death rate of 1-34 compared with 1-59 in 1933. This is the lowest number of deaths from this disease since 1925. The number of deaths from Tuberculosis was 30 (Pulmonary .23, Non-Pulmonary 7). This is the lowest recorded in the Borough The number of deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis and the death rate from that form of the disease are also the lowest on record. Only one maternal death is recorded during the year, which jgives a maternal mortality rate of 1-4 per 1,000 births (Live and ‘Still) compared with a similar rate for England and Wales of 4-41