[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cardiff County Borough & Port.

  • Cardiff (Wales). County Borough Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cardiff County Borough & Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The age periods of persons notified to be suffering from scarlet fever and the percentage proportion of deaths to cases notified in each age period were as follow's :— Ages. No. of Ca.ses Notified. Deaths.. Mortalitj- per cent. 0- 1 year 8 — 0-0 1- 5 years 192 6 31 5-15 „ 453 5 11 15-25 „ 69 — .— 2 .5-65 ,, 29 — — The following table shows the number of cases of scarlet fever notified in each year since 1891, and shows also the attack-rate, the death-rate, the proportion of deaths to cases notified, &c. :— TABLE XXII. Scarlet Fever. Year, I*apul;itit>n. •No. of (‘ases Notified. Attack rate p»*r 1 COO. No. of )caths. Death rate per 1,000. I'ercentage iietiioved to Hospital Mortality per cent, of Cases Notified. 1891 130,283 685 5-2 35 0-27 — 50 1892 132,895 1,851 13T 87 0-65 13 4-7 1893 136,168 816 60 39 0-28 22 4-7 1894 139,519 577 4T 8 005 ... 31 1-3 1895 142,958 484 3-3 8 005 ... 43 1-6 1896 146,479 874 5-9 28 0T9 ... 48 3-2 1897 150,087 758 50 17 Oil ... 50 2-2 1898 153,783 332 2T 8 005 ... 56 2-4 1899 157,414 184 IT 3 001 ... 66 1-6 1900 161,452 383 2-3 11 006 65 2-8 1901 164,759 1,362 8-2 29 017 47 21 1902 166,473 1,433 8-6 36 0-21 ... 48 2'i 1903 168,206 963 5-7 32 019 ... 63 3-7 1904 169,957 658 3-8 25 014 72 3-3 1905 171,726 362 2T 4 002 75 M 1906 173,512 776 4-4 3 001 74 0-4 1907 175,318 950 5-4 21 Oil ... 72 2-2 1908 177,143 475 2-6 10 005 78 2-1 1909 178,987 616 3-4 7 003 79 IT 1910 180,849 887 4-8 19 0-10 ... 78 21 1911 182,729 753 41 16 0-08 77 21 1912 184,6.33 472 2-5 8 004 81 1-6 1913 186,554 902 4-8 17 0*09 ... 78 1-8 1914 188,495 1,086 5-7 19 0-10 72 1-7 1915 188,495 751 3-9 11 0-05 78 1-4 The proportion of deaths to cases notified was 1-4 per cent. It will be seen on reference to the tables, that the chief incidence of the disease fell upon children at school ages. Of the eleven deaths, six, or 54 per cent. , occurred amongst children under 5 years of age ; of the 751 cases of scarlet fever notified. 590, or 78 per cent., were remov ed to the Cardiff Isolation Hospital. The relation of the infection to school attendance is referred to in the Annual Report to the Education Authority. There was no indication of milk infection during the year. although careful inquiry was made into the source of milk supply in each case. DIPHTHERIA AND MEMBRANOUS CROUP. —Forty-five deaths were registered from these diseases during the year, corresponding to an annual death-rate of 0-23 per 1,000 persons living, as compared with 0-22, the rate in 1914, and with 1-46, the rate in the ten years 1905-1914. The mortality from diphtheria throughout the coiintry was as follows during the year 1915 : Death-rate per 1,000. England and Wales ... ... ... ... ... 0T8 96 Great Towns ... ... ... ... ... 0T9 148 Smaller Towns ... ... ... ... ... 0T8 CARDIFF ... ... ... ... 0-23