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

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1910
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    The increase in numbers and cost as compared with the previous year is accounted for by the inclusion, as from 1st January, 1910, of pulmonary phthisis among the diseases which are compulsorily notifiable PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES. 1,340 deaths occurred during the year, from the principal zymotic diseases —smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus, enteric, undefined fever, cerebro- spinal fever, measles, whooping-cough, and diarrhoea. This represents an annual death-rate of 1‘682 per thousand living, compared with 2'244 in 1909, a decrease of 562 deaths per million. The rate is the lowest recorded. In con- sidering Appendix Table XIII., the diseases in connection with which this reduction has occurred have already been referred to. The corresponding rates for several periods have been: — 1881-90, .. 1891-1900, .. 1901-1905, .. 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 3-600 per 1,000 living. 3-282 2-660 2- 436 3- 300 2-586 2-244 1-682 In the following Table the rates for several towns are given on the basis of the Registrar-General’s tabulation : — Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, ... Aberdeen, London, ... Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Principal Zymotic Diseases. Death-rate per 100,000. 1900-1909. 1910. ... 226 140 145 79 155 263 144 40 184 114 296 228 252 179 245 112 In comparing these figures it is to be noted that the Registrar-General for England includes smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping-cough, “ fever,” and diarrhoea; whereas the Registrar-General for Scotland omits diarrhoea from his group, but adds influenza. EXCESSIVE FATALITY FROM NON-NOTIFIABLE DISEASES. The deaths and death-rates from the principal zymotic diseases for each Ward are given in Appendix Table XXIII., and for comparative purposes the corresponding- rates since 1903. In the following Table the fatality from several diseases of the notifiable and non-notifiable groups of the zymotic class are shown for the Wards where the mean rate for the City was exceeded. From all diseases of the zymotic class, the death-rate was greatest in Dalmarnock, Mile-end, Whitevale, and Calton, where the rates were 2,971, 2,789, 2,457, and 2,334 per million respectively, as compared with 1,682 for the city as a whole. In Anderston, Hutchesontown, Blackfriars, Broomielaw, and Gorbals the rate was also considerably in excess of the City mean.