[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council.

  • Fife (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 Of the total marriages, 588 took place in the landward Area and 670 in the Small Burghs, the respective rates being 5*7 and 6-7 per 1,000 estimated population. GENERAL MORTALITY. The deaths, corrected for transfers, allocated to the County exclusive of large burghs, in 1937 were 2,559 (males 1,267, females 1,292), equivalent to a death rate of 12*7 per 1,000 estimated population. The death rate adjusted for age and sex distribution is also 12-7. In 1937, there were 68 deaths more than in 1936 and in 1936, 97 more deaths than in 1935. In 1937, the deaths in the Landward Area numbered 1,239 and in the Small Burghs 1,320, the respective death rates being 12-1 and 13*3 per 1,000 estimated population. In 1936, the Landward deaths were 1,212 and the Small-Burgh deaths 1,279. The annexed table summarises the causes of deaths in the County (Landward Area and Small Burghs). The most frequent causes of death in 1937 were :—Diseases of the circulatory system 623 (1936, 579) ; cerebral haemorrhage and other diseases of the nervous system 327 (1936, 325) ; cancer and malignant disease 294 (1936, 298) ; infectious and parasitic diseases 273 (1936, 195) ; diseases of the respiratory system 254 (1936,315) ; congenital debility premature birth and malformations, etc., 148 (1936, 122) ; diseases of the digestive system 133 (1936, 145) ; and diseases of the genito-