Annual report on the health and medical services of the state of Queensland.

  • Queensland. Department of Health.
Date:
[1950]
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Credit: Annual report on the health and medical services of the state of Queensland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tuberculosis.—The reporting of tuberculosis is still unsatisfactory, and for some periods the number of deaths has exceeded the number of notifications. However, it is pleasing to record that notifications have exceeded deaths for the last two five-year periods. There has been a substantial fall in the death rate from tubercu¬ losis (from 59 per 100,000 population to 26 in thirty-five years). This is due chiefly to fewer people being infected; partly to better standards of living and nutrition and to improved diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. This trend will continue in the future. Diphtheria.—This has shown a dramatic and sustained fall in notifications and in mortality. It should be noted that there was no appreciable decline in incidence until after 1934, when mass immunisation began to show its worth. Typhoid Fever.—As the figures show, in the first twenty years of this century, tj^phoicl fever was an extremely common disease. The marked decline in notifications and in deaths since 1920 is a measure of the improved methods of sanita¬ tion (particularly of water supply and of disposal of nightsoil) which have operated over the last thirty years. TABLE XI. Showing Notifications and Deaths fob Tubebculosis, Diphthebia and Typhoid Feveb by Quinquennial Pebiods since 1910. Notifications. Deaths. Quinquennial Mean Average Annual Sate per 100,000 Average Annua] Rate per 100.000 Period. Population. Number. Population. Number. Population. *Tb. *D. ♦T.F. *Tb. *D. *T.F. ♦Tb. *D. *T.F. *Tb. *D. ♦T.F. {a) 1910-14 . . 634,686 301 1,267 1,058 47-41 199-55 166-64 375 88 118 59-06 13-86 18-59 1915-19 . . 696,101 437 1,954 994 62-78 280-71 142-80 384 77 99 55-16 11-06 14-22 1920-24 . . 778,801 436 1,755 508 55-98 225-33 65-23 359 78 52 46-10 10-02 6-68 1925-29 . . 869,188 368 1,667 194 42-34 191-79 22-32 369 69 32 42-45 7-94 3-68 1930-34 .. 934,402 250 1,911 115 26-76 204-52 12-31 355 55 17 37-99 5-89 1-82 (b) 1935-39 . . 990,727 265 1,096 83 26-75 110-63 8-38 314 42 13 31-69 4-24 1-31 1940-44 . . 1,041,599 538 593 62 51-65 56-93 5-95 311 29 7 29-86 2-78 0-67 1945-49 .. 1,108,629 453 348 20 40-86 31-39 1-80 290 14 1 26-16 1-26 0-09 » Tb. Tuberculosis. *D . Dipththeria. * T.F. Typhoid Fever. (a.) Notifications prior to 1930 recorded for fiscal years only. 0>) 4 year period for notifications only.