[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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    Deaths from Violence (including Suicide). District Number Rate per 1000 Cupar 13 0.86 Dunfermline 25 0.69 Kirkcaldy 20 0.65 St. Andrews 9 0,60 Fife County 76 0.68 DEATHS FROM RESPIRATORY DISEASES. There were one hundred and fifty-four deaths from respiratory diseases during 1925, equivalent to a death-rate of 1.39 per 1000 of the estimated population of the County. The deaths from respira- tory diseases were thirty-nine less than in 1924. Pneumonia caused sixty-five, bronchitis seventy-two deaths, the remaining seventeen being attributed to other diseases of the respiratory system. The deaths from respiratory diseases are equivalent to 12.47 per cent, of the total County mortality. Of the deaths from respira- tory diseases, sixty, or 39 per cent., occurred at ages under five years, and eighty, or 52 per cent., at ages beyond 45 years.