[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.

  • Nottingham (England). City Council.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The crude, or uncorrected, death-rate of both sexes per 1,000 of population at the mid-year was equal to 14-59 ; that of males to 15-89 per 1,000 males, and that of females to 13-47 per 1,000 females. The male death-rate therefore exceeded the female by 2-42 per 1,000. The male rate of mortality is normally higher than the female, and in the three immediately preceding years the male rate in this City exceeded the female by 2-43, 2-87, and 2-33 per 1,000, respectively. In England and Wales since 1876, we learn from the Registrar-General, there has been an average prepon¬ derance of the male over the female rate amounting to 2-04 per 1,000. The preponderance, moreover, has remained practically stationary during the past 38 years, although it had been steadily increasing prior to this period. If the female mortality in Nottingham during 1913 be expressed as 100, the male, in numerical relation thereto, will stand at 118. The corresponding figures for England and Wales will have been approxi¬ mately 100 : 114. Referring to the excess of male (over female) mortality, Dr. T. H. C. Stevenson, in his review of the vital statistics of England and Wales for 1912 con¬ tributed to the Registrar-General’s Report for that year, states that this excess “ is very unequally distributed, being large in infancy, negative in childhood, then gradually increasing to a maximum in later middle life, and from this period declining again with advancing age.” He further states that the excess of mortality of males in infancy, and from phthisis, pneumonia, and violence, together amount to more than the total excess from all causes, which would be 38 per cent, greater than it actually is, but for the mortality of females from childbearing, and from cancer of the generative organs, causes of death peculiar or almost