[Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council.

  • Fife (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1936
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Credit: [Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    n For each of the last two years the maternal mortality rate of the andward Area has been less than that of the Small Burghs. It is llpparent, however, from the tabular summary that over a period of Ijears the rate for the Landward Area is much higher than that of the mall Burghs. DEATHS I ROM VIOLENCE. Deaths from violence numbered 134 (suicide 17, other violence 117), jui valent to a death rate of 0-66 per 1,000 estimated population. Of le total, 93 were males and 41 were females. The deaths in tie andward Area were 70 (suicide 7, other violence 63), and in the Small urghs 64 (suicide 10, other violence 54). 1 Violent deaths numbered 138 in 1935, 144 in 1934 and 138 in 1933. SMALL BURGHS—VITAL RETURNS. The more important figures for each of the twenty-three Small urghs of the County are set forth in the annexed table. The population of the Small Burghs has been estimated by the egistrar General to the middle of 1936 at 99,611, an increase of 1,213 l the estimated population of 1935. ; The births in the Small Burghs in 1936 numbered 1,598, being an Lcrease of 58 over those of 1935 and equivalent to a birth rate of 16*0 pr 1,000 population. The natural increase of the population, that is, le excess of births over deaths, was 319 as compared with 353 in 1935. The marriages numbered 643 (11 less than in 1935), the marriage iite being 6-4 per 1,000. The deaths, corrected for transfers, numbered 1,279 (91 more than j 1935), the death rate being 12-8 per 1,000. In 1935 the death rate as 12T per 1,000 ; in 1934, 12-4 ; and in 1933, 12-8 per 1,000. I Infant deaths numbered 106, the infantile mortality rate being 66. i 1935, infant deaths numbered 76, the mortality rate being 49*3. The number of deaths from tuberculosis was 54 (pulmonary 36, m-pulmonary 18), the death rate being 0*54 per 1,000 (pulmonary 36, non-pulmonary 0T8). The decline in the number of tuber- llosis deaths is observable from the returns of recent years :—1930, 3 deaths ; 1931, 56 deaths ; 1932, 70 deaths ; 1933, 54 deaths ; 134, 48 deaths ; 1935, 45 deaths. Deaths from the principal epidemic diseases numbered 48 (being less than in 1935), equivalent to a rate of 0-48 per 1,000. In 1934, the )aths from these causes numbered 52 ; in 1933, 99 ; in 1932, 61 ; and 1931, 61. Deaths from cancer and malignant disease were 157, the death rate iing 1-58 per 1,000. In 1935 deaths from cancer numbered 144 ; 1934, 164.