[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Ripon City.

  • Ripon (England). City Council.
Date:
1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Ripon City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTES ON VITAL STATISTICS BIRTHS. The adjusted birth rate of 17,58 is lower than that for the previous year (20,85) but compares favourably with the national rate of 15,2. DEATHS The death rate of 13,32 is practically the same as in 1953, It is higher than the national rate of 11,3. The principal causes of death, in order of numerical importance were - Vascular lesions of the nervous system - 38 deaths Coronary artery disease ~ 27 deaths Other diseases of heart and circulatory system - 25 deaths Cancer of all sites 18 deaths Pneumonia and bronchitis ~ 18 deaths The above groups account for four-fifths of all deaths in the City during the year. One death was attributed to what is now an unusual cause - diphtheria. The diphtheria had occurred very many years previously, in childhood, and its appearar as the cause of death Is due to the peculiarities of the international system of classification of the causes of death* NATURAL INCREASE OF POPULATION, The number of births exceeded the number of deaths by 26. ^ INFANTILE MORTALITY. 2 children died under 1 year of age during 1954, This gives an infantile mortalit rate of 10.98 per 1,000 live births, which is the lowest rate on record for the C: and compares favourably with a national rate of 25,5, The following table shows the age and sex distribution of these deaths: TABLE I Male Female Total Days 0“ 1 - o - 7 = — — -14 .. e=> - -31 1 — 1 Months - 6 1 — 1 ”12 .. — — -» Total under 1 yr. 2 am 2 One death was due to congenital heart disease, and one to asphyxia from suffocati MATERNAL MORTALITY There have been no maternal deaths in Ripon since 1947,