[Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council.

  • Fife (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1936
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Credit: [Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of the total marriages, 532 took place in the Landward Area an 643 in the Small Burghs, the respective marriage rates being 5-2 an 6-4 per 1,000 estimated population. GENERAL MORTALITY. The deaths, corrected for transfers, allocated to the County, excli sive of the large burghs, in 1936 were 2,491 (males 1,259, females 1,23: equivalent to a death rate of 12-3 per 1,000 estimated population. T1 death rate adjusted for age and sex distribution was also 12-3. There were in 1936, 97 more deaths than in 1935. The deaths in the Landward Area numbered 1,212 and in the Sma Burghs 1,279, the respective death rates being 11-8 and 12-8 per 1,0( estimated population. In 1935, the Landward deaths Were 1,206 and those in Small Burg] 1,188. The annexed table summarises the causes of deaths in the Landwai Area and the Small Burghs. The most frequent causes of death were Diseases of the Circulatory System, 579 ; Cerebral Haemorrhage ar other Diseases of the Nervous System, 325 ; Diseases of the Respi atory System, 315 ; Cancer and Malignant Disease, 298 ; Infectioi and Parasitic Diseases, 195 ; and Diseases of the Digestive Systei 145. The number of deaths attributed to Congenital Debility, Prematu Birth, Malformations, etc., was 122, 16 deaths less than in 1935. The deaths have been decreasing of late. I Z 8 I