[Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council.

  • Fife (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1926
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    7/92 (page 7)
    7 GENERAL MORTALITY. The number of deaths, corrected for transfers, allocated to Fife pounty in 1926 was 1,193, as compared with 1,235 in 1925 and 1,322 in (1924. The County Landward death-rate was 10.7 per 1000 of a popula- tion estimated to the middle of the year as 110,984. The deaths in the Landward Area in 1926 are, in proportion to the (population, the lowest number yet recorded. The least number of (deaths hitherto was 1,218, that number having occurred in each of the (years 1919 and 1920. The number of deaths and relative rates for each of the four i Districts and the County Landward are set forth below :— Area. Number. Rate per 1000. Cupar District 186 9.4 Dunfermline District 317 9.5 Kirkcaldy District 498 12.3 St. Andrews District 192 11.1 Fife County 1,193 10.7 During the fifteen years I have held office, the greatest number of ideaths occurred in 1914 when 1,491 were recorded. The year 1926 is the first in which the total deaths have been less than 1,200. The Scottish death-rate of 1926 was 13.0 per 1000 ; the death-rate of the extra-burghal or landward districts of Scotland was 11.7 per 1000. The total deaths in the County during the last three quinquennial (periodswere:—1912-16,6,739; 1917-21,6,441; 1922-26,6,410. Despite (the disturbing factors of the war years and of the years immediately following on the war, the trend of the annual average number of deaths continues steadily towards a lower figure. The appended table shows the age and sex distribution of the more