Report of the Medical Officer of Health, Cairo City.

  • Egypt. Cairo City Health Inspectorate.
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[1928]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health, Cairo City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (b) Births. During 1928 : 45,814 births occurred in Cairo. The annual birth-rate was therefore 41-7 per thousand of population as compared with 53-0 in the previous year. Of the total 45,033 were natives and 781 were foreigners. For the quinquennial period ending in 1928, the mean annual birth-rate was 49,6. The highest rate during that period was 53-0 in 1927 and the lowest in the present year being 41*7 per thousand of population. The lowest rate occurred in Abdin with 30-6 (see Table I). Table I.—District Births and Birth-rates per Thousand of Population. District. 1928 1927 1926 Births. Rates. Births. Rates. Births. Birth¬ rates. Musky. 865 33-0 947 36-4 992 38*7 Bab el ShaViya. 3,354 42-5 3,507 48*6 3,405 48*0 Ezbeldya . 1,882 31'4 2,021 32*7 2,115 34*7 Darb el Ahmar. 3,126 37*6 3,333 44*9 3,258 44*4 cAbdin . 2,404 30*6 2,479 38*3 2,337 36*5 Saiyeda Zeinab. 4,614 42-8 4,543 53*5 4,433 52*2 Helwan . 1,932 39*7 1,953 45-7 1,808 47*8 Khalifa . 3,255 46*2 3,310 55*1 3,262 55-2 Gamaliya. 3,519 46-0 3,560 50-6 3,427 49*5 Shubra . 6,992 47-1 6,579 69*5 5,959 69*5 Bulaq. 6,342 50*4 6,721 64*2 6,443 63*0 Old Cairo. 2,257 49*5 2,388 67-3 2,273 65*1 Wayli. 5,272 35*2 5,004 60*7 4,639 57-3 Total Cairo City ... 45,814 41-7 46,345 53*0 44,351 51*6 Still-Births.—During 1928 : 1,111 children were born dead. Of these 1,100 were among natives and 11 among foreigners. This gives a rate of 2-4 still-births per hundred births as compared with 2-7 in 1927 and 2-5 in 1926. (c) Deaths. During 1928, a total of 36,417 deaths occurred in Cairo. Of these however 780 were deaths of non-residents leaving 35,637 for Cairo proper. This gives an annual death- rate of 32-4 per thousand of population as compared with a rate of 33-3 for 1927 and 34*4 for 1926. For the quinquennial period ending with the present year, the mean annual rate was 34-2 per thousand of population with a maximum during the period of 37-0 in 1925 and a minimum of 32-4 in the present year. The lowest mortality occurred in Abdin with a death-rate of 24-6 per thousand of population as 22*0 per thousand of population in Mousky in 1927. The highest district mortality was in Boulaq with a death-rate of 43-8 per thousand of population as compared with 47*9 in 1927 in Old Cairo (See Table II). Out of the total number of 35,637 for Cairo proper 34,968 were deaths among natives and 669 were foreign deaths.