[Report 1902] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1902
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Credit: [Report 1902] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As we have seen, Brownfield again presents the highest district death- rate, 32'5 for the year, and next in order come Calton, St. Enoch Square, and Cowcaddens, with rates of 28'09 and 27'9 respectively. Monteith Row alone presents a higher death-rate from diseases of the zymotic class, due to the occurrence of two deaths from smallpox and two from scarlet fever, and an increase in the diarrhoeal rate. In 1901 no deaths from smallpox or scarlet fever had occurred in this district, and the diarrhoeal rate was '703 per 1,000, compared with '997 in 1902, while the infantile death-rate was 190 in 1902 against 165 in the previous year. An analysis of certain causes of death in the districts presenting a higher rate of mortality in 1902 brings into prominence the effect of a cold summer in increasing the death-rate from respiratory diseases. Districts with Death-rates in L902 exceeding those of 1901. Death-Rate PER 1,000. District. All Causes. Principal Z3Tmotics. Phthisis. Respiratory Diseases. | 11901 15-1 26 1-1 2-4 — Blythswood, 1 (.1902 15-5 1-3 1-2 2*5 JT901 17-8 1-4 1-2 3-7 9. Monteith Row, ...< (.1902 26-9 2*5 3-0 8*2 | iT901 26-4 4-6 2-2 6-8 11. Calton, - 1 1.1902 28-1 3-3 2-9 7*4 12. St. Enoch Square, j (T901 26-5 4-6 2-9 6-3 L1902 28T 3-2 0-9 5-5 i U901 24-2 5-0 1-8 5-7 20. Laurieston, j .1902 24-7 2-8 3*4 7-3 | f 1901 14-2 2-5 1-2 2-3 23. Govanhill, - .1902 14-3 1-6 1*4 2'4 | j 1901 10-1 1-2 0-5 1-4 24. Crosshill 1 [1902 11-2 0-7 HI 2-0 l T901 9-9 1-0 0-69 T5 25. Langside, \ 1.1902 10-4 0-7 0*73 2-0 CLASSIFICATION OF CHIEF CAUSES OF DEATH. The death-rate for 1902 represents a reduction in the number of deaths equal to 1,257 per million living when compared with that for 1901. This reduction is largely due to a lessened prevalence of zymotic disease. The rates for pulmonary phthisis and the other forms of tubercular disease are also lower, but in all the other forms of disease which are classified the rates are increased, and this is especially the case in acute forms of lung diseases other than phthisis. The diminution in the amount of zymotic disease is to be considered in connection with the meteorological conditions which prevailed during a great part of the year. It affords illustration of the restraining influence of low temperature on microbic life.