Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia.

  • Southern Rhodesia. Department of Health.
Date:
[1929]
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Credit: Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    12/88 (page 8)
    Asiatic and Coloured Births.—In addition to the foregoing, the follow¬ ing non-European births were recorded during the year:— Males. Females. Total. Indian . 40 38 78 Chinese . 1 2 Q fj (Coloured . 32 20 52 British West Indian — 1 1 Total . 73 61 134 these, three coloured and two Indian were plural births , and illegitimate. European Deaths.—The deaths among Europeans registered during the year numbered 469 (300 males and 1(!9 females), as compared with 477 in 1928. Crude European Death Rate.—Calculated on the estimated mean popu¬ lation in 1929, the European crude death rate was 10.1 per 1,000 of the total population. The corresponding rate in .1928 was 10.7.* The number of deaths of male Europeans was 300 in 1929, as compared with 316 in the previous year, a decrease of 16 deaths. Deaths of female Europeans num¬ bered 169 and were 8 more than in 1928. It must not be overlooked that the rate of mortality varies greatly with age and sex, those for males being generally higher than for females, while for both sexes the rates are high at very young and very old ages, and low at intermediate ages. As the crude death rate conceals this variation among the various age-groups, the following table of specific death rates has been prepared to illustrate such variations. SPECIFIC DEATH RATES PER 1,000 AT EACH AGE PERIOD, 1929. Males and females separately. Age period 192S 1929 Males F emales Persons Males Females Persons Under 1 year 90.72 75.07 83.07 87.04 59.94 72.78 1-4 years 8.10 7.62 7.90 9.52 9.76 9.63 5-14 „ 2.73 2.24 2.49 3.28 3.10 3.19 15-24 „ 6.23 2.29 4.51 5.77 1.10 3.73 25-34 „ 4.95 5.04 5.26 0.89 4.50 5.83 35-44 „ 10.41 4.53 7.75 0.16 5.90 6.04 45-54 „ 19.15 9.09 15.35 13.10 12.40 12.83 55-64 ,, 22.55 17.95 20.96 23.10 17.24 21.12 65-74 ,, 62.50 51.30 58.43 60.00 40.70 52.97 75 years and over 70.39 70.00 73.77 87.25 115.38 98.81 All ages 12.07 8.23 10.72 11.55 8.30 10.12 Infantile mortality is dealt with in a later paragraph. At ages above that of infants the table indicates for both sexes an increased rate of mortality in 1929 for age-groups 1-4 years, 5-14 years and 75 years and over, and a reduced, rate for age-group 15-24 years. At other ages the rates for males in age-groups 35-44 years and 45-54 years and for females in age-groups 25-34 years and 55-64 years all show improvement in 1929, compared with 1928. With the exception of age-groups 1-4 years and 75 years and over, the rates for females are more favourable than those for males. Revised figure.