[Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1969
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Credit: [Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There were 25 deaths from non-pulmonary tuberculosis, 12 more than in 1968. All were adults (16 men over 25 years, nine women over 45.) Diseases of the Nervous System.—Following the new classification adopted in 1968, the 1,753 deaths classified as “ Cerebrovascular disease ” in 1969 are now included in Diseases of the circulatory system. This leaves only 196 deaths from Nervous diseases in 1969 of which seven were due to meningitis (ten fewer than in 1968) and 189 to the miscellaneous sub group “ other diseases of the nervous system ”. (166 in 1968.) Diseases of the Circulatory System.—This is the major group of causes of death which under the new classification has been extended to include deaths from cerebrovascular disease (1,753 in 1969). Excluding these, the total deaths in this group in 1969 were 4,320 or 35-0 per cent, of all causes of death as against 4,331 (35-4 per cent.) in 1968. Degen- erative heart disease and arteriosclerotic heart disease, which in 1967 accounted for 3,139 deaths (78-0 per cent, of the deaths in this group) are now combined under the new heading of Ischaemic heart disease. The Registrar General allotted 2,963 deaths to this cause in 1969, distributed as follows according to sex and age :— -25 -35 -45 -55 -65 -75 75 + Total Males 1 6 46 167 468 542 435 1,665 Females — — 5 43 203 420 627 1,298 One hundred and seventy-four deaths were allotted to chronic rheumatic heart disease in 1969, one less than in 1968. Deaths among females again outnumbered the male deaths, 114 as against 60. All but one of the 174 deaths were over 25 years of age ; 20 were over 75 years. The heaviest mortality is between the ages of 45 and 64. There was one death between five and ten years. Hypertensive disease accounted for 226 deaths compared with 211 in 1968 and “other forms of heart disease’’ 552. In 1967 the deaths allotted to “ other diseases of the heart ’’ totalled only 178, and the sharp increase in the 1968 and 1969 figures is due entirely to changes in the classification. Diseases of the Respiratory System.—Deaths from respiratory disease increased in number in 1969, 1,493 compared with 1,477 in 1968, and the death rate rose from 1563 to 1609 per million. Pneumonia