[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1950
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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES. Cancer. The number of deaths from this dread affliction during 1950 was 537; In 1949 it was 563; in 1948 there were 557; in 1947, 532; in 1946, 503; in 1945, 499, and 1944, 467. The figure shows a slight decrease over last year, and on looking back as far as 1925, in that year it is noted that there were 320 deaths in this category. During the years since 1924 the number of deaths has fluctuated somewhat from year to year, but over the whole period it has shown a relent- less tendency to rise. This may be in part due to improved methods of diagnosis, and also in part to the increasing number of people surviving to a greater age than heretofore, but these explanations do not appear to account for the whole of the increase. As in previous years the majority of the deaths occurred in persons of 45 years of age and upwards. Tuberculosis. Under the Tuberculosis Regulations, 1930, in the year 1950, there were 340 primary cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis notified and 107 deaths were registered. Of other form of Tuberculosis 66 cases were notified and 18 deaths registered. The total number of primary notifications of all forms of 3'uberculosis was therefore 406, and the number of deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis was 125. In 1949, 378 cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis were notified and of other forms 48 cases. In this latter year 157 deaths from the pulmonary form and 24 from other forms were registered. Registered deaths from Tuberculosis were again compared with the cases notified by the District Medical OflScers of Health, and when it was found that a death registered by the District Registrar had not previously been notified by the District Medical OflScer of Health as a primary notification, it was included in the return of new cases coming to the knowledge of the Medical Oflficer otherwise than by formal notification, under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930. It will be observed from the accompanying table that the notification rate for 1950 is lower than for 1949 in the case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, but the non-pulmonary notification rate is higher. The pulmonary notification I ate was the lowest since 1938, and this also applies to both the pulmonary and non-pulmonary death rates.