[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1910
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    SECTION II. INFECTIOUS DISEASES. During the year, 30,647 cases of infectious disease were registered and dealt with by the Department. This represents an attack rate equal to 38 per thousand of the population, which is 3 per thousand higher than in 1909. During the year, however, tubercle of the lung became compulsorily notifiable, and is responsible for 4'5 per thousand of the total rate, as compared with 1'5 per thousand in the previous year. Deducting this increase, resulting from the compulsory notification of phthisis, the rate for all other infectious diseases is practically the same as in 1909. Of the total cases registered, 9,464, or 315 per cent., were treated in hospital. The varying rates of incidence in the several Wards are shown in Appendix Table XXII., but it must be remembered that these afford an accurate attack- rate only for those diseases which are notifiable under the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act. On the other hand, measles and whooping-cough are grouped with chickenpox, and a small number of cases of other diseases in the column “ All others,” and the rates given indicate only the cases known and dealt with. It may be further remarked that all the Ward rates in Table XXII., with the exception of that for phthisis, are calculated on populations which include the institutional population in each Ward. In the case of phthisis, however, the institutional cases and population have been excluded in calculating the Ward rates, although both are included when calculating the rate for the City as a whole. The composition of the rate for the past eight years is shown in the following Table: — Glasgow.—Case-rate PER MILLION of the Population for certain Zymotics AND FOR ALL CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES REGISTERED, 1903-10. Yfar. Typhus Fever. Enteric Fever. Continued and Undefined. Puerperal. Smallpox. Scarlet Fever. Diphtheria and Membranoui Croup. Cerebro-Spinnl Fever. Phthisis. All Others. >4 H O [_ 1903, 41 1,207 22 138 373 2,597 926 216 15,560 21.080 1904, 34 800 39 113 1,108 2,003 824 998 14,875 20,794 1905, 67 569 37 137 5 1,235 924 1,659 20,379 25,013 1906, 12 483 76 148 4 1,721 1,580 255 1,648 17,819 23,746 1907, 6 583 36 151 1 2,180 1,510 1,237 1,619 18,945 26,268 1908, 16 741 25 149 2 3,491 1,590 300 1,531 25,223 33,068 1909, 32 707 20 135 5,510 2,306 101 1,483 24,841 35,135 1910, 19 427 29 142 1 5.277 2,435 58 4,508 25.586 38,482 Table XXII., just referred to, affords a comparison of the relative prevalence of notifiable and non-notifiable diseases in the several Wards. Taking both together, the incidence was greatest in Dalmarnock, Springburn, Mile-end, and Maryhill, in the order named, where the rates exceeded 50 per thousand, and least in Blythswood, Park, and Pollokskields, where the lowest was 9, and the highest 18, per thousand. The attack-rate for the notifiable diseases for the City as a whole was barely 13 per thousand, as compared with 25‘6 per thousand for the diseases which are not notifiable. Of the notifiable diseases, 5'3 per thousand is due to scarlet fever, 4‘5 to phthisis, and 2 4 to diphtheria. Diphtheria and scarlet fever were pretty generally distributed throughout the year, the rate for diphtheria being slightly in excess of that for the previous year, while that for scarlet fever was somewhat less. Diphtheria was most