[Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council.

  • Hertfordshire (England). County Council. n 50062101.
Date:
1934
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Credit: [Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table 6. GANGER OR MALIGNANT DISEASE. (Including carcinoma and rodent ulcer. For each district see Table 18.) Hertfordshire. England and Wales. Urban. Rural. County. Rate. Number. Rate. Number. Rate. Number. Rate. 1911-20 . 1*2 252* 1-2 128* 1-2 380* 1-2 1921-30 . 1-4 342* 1-3 151* 1-3 493* 1-2 1933 1*3 402 1 *3 176 1 -3 578 1-5 1934 1 *7 511 1-4 194 1-6 705 — * = Average. There has been an increase in the death-rate from malignant disease. The total number of deaths from this disease during the year was 705, compared with 578 for the previous year, which gives a death-rate of i-6 compared with 1*3. Of the total number of deaths 511 were in urban districts and 194 in rural districts, and 320 were males and 385 were females compared with 268 and 310 respectively last year. It will be observed that the increase in the death-rate from malignant disease is higher in the urban than in the rural districts. A study of the sex incidence of the disease shows that the increase affects both males and females, the increase being for males 52 and for females 75. The increase in the death-rate from malignant disease is chiefly due to the larger number of persons who now reach the advanced age period when malignant disease, which is a disease predisposed to by degenerative changes, most frequently develops. Thus of the total deaths of 705 from this cause 392 were above the age of 65. Table 7. TUBERCULOSIS. Crude Death-rates from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. (For each District see Table 18.) Hertfordshire. England and Wales. Urban. Rural. County. Rate. Number. Rate. Number. Rate. Number. Rate. 1911-20 • •8 169* •7 79* •7 248* 1-0 1921-30 • •6 158* •5 63* •5 221* •7 1933 • •55 163 •47 60 •53 223 •6 1934 • •54 163 •33 43 •47 206 —