[Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council.

  • Fife (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1923
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Credit: [Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Principal Epidemic Diseases, Deaths and Rates, 1923. Disease Cupar Dun- ferm- Kirk- caldy Dist. St An- drews Dist. Fife County Dist. line Dist. Num- ber Rate per 1000 : Typhoid Fever 1 1 1 3 0.02 Measles - 15 ! 12 1 28 0.25 Scarlet Fever 2 ! ... 2 0.01 Whooping Cough - 6 18 24 0.21 Diphtheria - Diarrhoea and Enteritis 2 1 1 4 0.03 (under 2 years) 1 4 10 1 16 0.14 Total - 4 29 41 3 77 0.70 Rate per 1000 — 0.26 0.82 0.92 0.20 0.70 The deaths due to the principal epidemic diseases during 1923 [ were 77 in number. There were 107 in 1922 : in 1921 and 1920 j there were 57 and 82 respectively under this heading. Three deaths were recorded from typhoid fever, one in each ! of Cupar, Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy Districts. Measles and whooping cough accounted for 28 and 24 deaths I respectively as compared with 20 and 54 in 1922 : the slight increase i in deaths from measles in 1923 is somewhat compensated by the decline in whooping cough mortality. As has been noted in former reports, practically all deaths from measles and whooping cough occur at ages below five years. In 1923, all deaths from these diseases were of children under five years and the great majority j were of children under two years. It seems desirable to again stress the fact that the longer parents can postpone the chance of j children catching the infection of measles or whooping cough, the ! less likely is the child to take the disease and the more likely, if | the disease is taken, is the child to recover : if the disease can be