[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council.

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

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    INFANTILE MORTALITY. The following table sets forth the more common causes of death among infants under one year of age. Deaths of Infants under One Year—Fife County, 1925. Disease Cupar District Dunfermline District Kirkcaldy District St Andrews District Fife County Per Cent. Influenza ! 1 0.55 Measles 3 1 1 5 2.72 Whooping Cough 4 7 2 13 7.06 Other Epidemic Diseases 1 I 2 1.08 Tuberculous Meningitis 1 i 2 1.08 Meningitis (not Cer. Spin, or Tuber.) .. 1 3 4 2.17 Bronchitis ... 2 9 11 6.01 Pneumonia (all forms) 3 12 9 2 26 14.12 Other Diseases of Respiratory System ... 10.86 Diarrhoea and Enteritis 1 8 11 20 Nephritis (Acute and Chronic)... Diseases of Early Infancy and Malforma- tions 8 27 33 4 72 39.13 Other Defined Diseases 2 5 18 2 27 14.67 Causes ill-defined or. unknown 1 1 0.55 Total 14 64 93 13 184 100.00 The deaths of children under one year of age numbered 184 during 1925, equivalent to an infantile mortality-rate of 76 per 1000 births registered during the year. The infantile mortality-rate is the lowest yet recorded, seventy- six per 1000 births. There were two hundred and nineteen deaths of infants under one year of age recorded in 1924, giving an infantile mortality-rate of eighty-four per 1000 births. The more important causes of deaths of infants were:—Dis- eases of early infancy and malformations, which yielded seventy- two, or 39.13 per cent, of the total, a decrease of forty deaths from the comparative figure for 1924. Diseases of the respiratory system, chiefly bronchitis and pneumonia, caused thirty-seven deaths, or 20.13 per cent., a decrease of one from last year’s figure. Measles and whooping-cough caused eighteen deaths or 9.78 per cent., being double the number for 1924. Diarrhoea and enteritis accounted for twenty deaths, or 10.86 per cent., being an increase of six over last year’s figure.