Infant mortality in Scotland / the report of a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Committee.

  • Great Britain. Department of Health for Scotland. Scientific Advisory Committee on Medical Administration and Investigation.
Date:
1943
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Credit: Infant mortality in Scotland / the report of a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table 57—Stillbirth Rates : Large Burghs 1939-41 Arbroath . woe CST CeUOC kre»: ; proAl Motherwell & Wishaw . 33 Stirling ad 77 Kilmarnock 5 ress Airdrie , ; . 42 Aberdeen . : Fo a0 Duntermiline pa « . 42 Port Glasgow : . 36 Paisley : : . 43 Perth , : ey Glasgow. : oor hh. Clydebank . . 3s Hamilton . : . 465 Dumfries. : ee te. Dundee : , . 46 Rutherglen . 38 Falkirk ; ; ops. | Dumbarton : .ne3d Coatbridge . , ee S| Edinburgh . : » 39 Kirkcaldy . : . 48 Inverness . ; . 40 AVI pe : : 294 49 Table 58—Stillbirth Rates : Counties, excluding Large Burghs 1939-41 Bute . : 2 eeez 1+ Fife . : ; Poet!) Orkney : ‘ en 5O Stirling : ; . 40 Selkirk : : i -30! Ayr . : ‘ ated Kirkcudbright. . ~30 Renfrew. : sqridek Wigtown . syd West Lothian ; . 42 Moray and Nairn oo Peebles ‘ + yi432 Aberdeen . : oD Dumfries. : . 43 Angus , perms Lanark 5 , . 44 Ross and Cromarty Bonen 3 is Midlothian . : . 46 Zetland : : tee Who Roxburgh . . 46 Caithness . . . ee Clackmannan : . 46 East Lothian : ae yi Argyll : 420 Berwick ‘ ; rag te Sutherland . ; ma Kincardine . 5 ros Dunbarton : - 48 Inverness . Ase Banff : : . 48 Perth and Kinross SP yess’ 1 Based on less than 1,000 births. APPENDIX 2—THE EFFECT OF DIET ON FQATAL AND INFANT MORTALITY IN ANIMALS Imperial Bureau of Animal Nutrition—21st September 1942 FARM ANIMALS Foetal and infant mortalities are high in farm animals. In a first-class dairy herd, stillbirths, over a period of two years, were 1-9 per cent. of the total births and mortality during the suckling period was 3-7 per cent. of live births. The rates would be considerably higher in the average herd. The loss of lambs varies from over 20 per cent. on poor grazings to between 5 and 10 per cent. under conditions of good management and good feeding. In pigs, even under good conditions, stillbirths average about 7 per cent. of total births and about 20 per cent. of those born alive die during the suckling period. The death of chick embryos during incubation of the eggs from hens on “ normal ’’ diets is 20 to 40 per cent. of fertile eggs and in eggs from hens on deficient diets all embryos may die or those thatched out be too weak to survive. It is recognised that the magnitude of these losses is to a large extent