[Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City.

  • Manchester (England). City Council. n 88637066.
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 Table 5 allows a comparison with former years in respect of the infantile mortality rates from different causes for the whole of the first year of life. Table 5. City of Manchester. CAUSES OF DEATH DEATHS UNDER ONE YEAR PER 1,000 BIRTHS 1928 1929 1930 1931 - 1932 1933 All causes . 90-87 97-30 78-73 83-84 85-41 74-93 Smallpox . • . • • • • • • . » • . Chickenpox. 0-08 . . • • 0-08 0-42 • . Measles. 3*64 1-38 3-00 0-90 2-20 0-63 Scarlet Fever. • • • . # . 0-08 Whooping Cough. 3-33 5*76 i-53 2-29 2-62 1-62 Diphtheria . 1 -08 0-77 0-23 0-49 0-25 0-09 Erysipelas . 0-08 0-15 0-46 o-33 0-42 0-45 Tuberculous Meningitis o*39 0.77 0-38 °-73 0-42 0-09 Abdominal Tuberculosis 0-23 0-15 0-15 • • 0-08 0-18 Other Tuberculous Diseases o-39 0-15 0-69 °-33 0-25 o-54 Meningitis (not Tuberculous) 0-70 0-92 0-77 0-65 o-59 0-27 Convulsions. 2-71 3-07 2-14 2-12 3-3° 1 -So Bronchitis . 7’°5 5-83 5-44 5-88 3-81 3-42 Pneumonia (all forms). 16-11 20-18 11 *33 I5'59 16-40 13-58 Diarrhoea and Enteritis 13*24 12-35 jo-57 io-86 8-63 ‘ 7-83 Gastritis . o-39 0.77 0-77 • • • • Syphilis. o-54 o-54 0-77 0-65 1-19 o-54 Rickets. °-54 0-23 0-15 0-08 0-42 0-36 Injury at Birth . 2-48 3-07 2-37 3-26 2-37 2-43 Atelectasis . 1 *70 2-15 1-76 2-04 2-62 3-06 Congenital Malformation 6-14 5-45 5-44 5-06 7'19 6-92 Premature Birth. 19-36 20-72 19-30 18-78 19-38 20-42 Atrophy, Debility, and Marasmus 2-79 2-99 4-06 3-^7 2-20 1-89 Overlying, found dead in bed, and suffocation. . 0-62 0-46 0-38 0-74 o-34 o-54 Other causes. 5-97 9'44 7-04 8-63 9-76 8-19