Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of the city and borough of Pietermaritzburg.

  • Pietermaritzburg (South Africa). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1960]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of the city and borough of Pietermaritzburg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DEATHS TOTAL DEATHS REGISTERED (RESIDENTS) Male Female Persons Deaths Rate per 1,000 Male Population Deaths Rate per 1,000 Female Population Deaths Death Rate (per 1,000 Population) European 176 9.5 142 7.1 318 to • 00 L_ Native 12Z 7.2 88 8.5 210 7.7 C oloured 25 11.0 14 6.0 39 8.5 Asiatic 109 9.9 53 5.0 162 7.5 ALL NON-Eie. 256 8.5 155 6.7 411 7.7 all RACES 432 8.9 297 u 6.9 729 8.0 DEATHS; (Pages 5-7). Death rates were higher this year in all races. The death rate for all races was 8,0 as compared with 6,4 last year. The following figures indicate below the age of 45 in the various races European Native C ol oured Asiatic All Non-European the percentage of deaths occurring 13.8;^ {16% last year) 13.3< (76% la st year) 51.3fo {4S% la st year) 48.8/o (575?, last year) 61.6^ (67% last year) These figures once again shovj hoy/ much better the expectation of life is for Euxopeans than for Non—Europeans. The table on page 7 also indicates that Cardiac and C5i*culatary System disease far outweighs all other causes of death among Europeans, Among Non-Eui'openns, Respiratory Diseases was the main cause of death.