[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CAUSES OF DEATH. The principal causes of death are summarised as follows : — Summary of Death-rates per 1,000 from Principal Causes. General Diseases— 1923 1924 1925 (a) Infectious, ... 1-46 1-71 1-24 (6) Septic, 11 •12 •13 (c) Tuberculous— (1) Phthisis, ... 101 101 •92 (2) Others, •42 •39 •36 (d) Malignant (cancer, &c.), 1-19 1-16 1-26 (e) Other General Diseases, •12 •42 •25 Diseases of the nervous system, 1-62 1-60 1-45 Diseases of the circulatory system, 1-78 1-90 2-02 Diseases of respiration, 217 3-18 252 Do. digestion, •55 •49 •52 Congenital defects and malformations (including premature births), '81 •85 •78 Violence, •47 •52 •56 All other causes, ... 1-95 2-04 1-96 All causes, 13-66 15-39 13-97 The death-rate from infectious diseases during 1925, which was 1'24 per thousand, is the lowest recorded since 1921, when, however, the child population of susceptible ages had been considerably reduced by the low birth-rates during the war. The rate for 1924 was 171. The low rate for 1925 was the result mainly of the reduction in the death-rate from measles, which was 107, and influenza, 191 per million, compared with 471 and 376 respectively for the previous year, and of smaller reductions in scarlet fever and diphtheria. On the other hand, the death-rate from enteric fever was 13, as against 5 in 1924 when the rate was exceedingly low. There has been little change in the death-rate from erysipelas during the past three years, but septicaemia and other septic diseases were heavier. The pulmonary tuberculosis death-rate in 1925 was 922 per million. This is the first time on record that the death-rate in the City has been below one per thousand. For 1924 it was 1.006. The death-rate from tubercular meningitis, 147, is considerably lower than 180, the rate for 1924, but similar to that ^ A