CO129-629-10 Tuberculosis 1-7-1950 - 31-10-1951 — Page 31

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Year

Estiated Notifica**

Death N Natio

population

tion

Kates per

100,000 estinated

population.

1937

1,281,982

4,028

314.2

1938

1,478,619

4,920

332.7

1939

1,750,256 7,591

4044463

1 to 1.7

253.8

1940

to

1945

1946

1,600,000 2,801

1,752

1 to 1.6

109.5

1947

1,750,000 4.855

1,861

1 to 2.6

106.3

1948

1,800,000 6.279

1,961

1 to 3.2

108.9

1949

1,857,000 7,510

2,611

1 to 2.8

140.6

It can be seen from the above that the generally favourable trend of tuberculosis has been interrupted by sharp rises occuring in 1957 and 1949 when upheavals in the neighbouring areas of China took place, How muơn these rises are due to oranges in population und how much they are secondary to social and econario deterioration is difficult to determine. It is a significant fact to the statistician timt in the list of the causes of death the ¡roportions due to the more stable diseases such an oɛncer, and diseaes of the heart and

circulatory system are little altered compared with the figures for 1948, but expressed as a rate per 100,000 of the poțulation as esti- mated, these figures have increased by 25 and 20 percent respectively. A similar comparison of the pulmonary tuberculosis fiṛwes shows that this disease accounted for 19.5% of the total deaths în 1949 as against 10.6% last year, but expressed as a rate per 100,000 estimated population the figure has increased in 1949 to 92.2 per 100,000 - a 15% increase over the figure for 1948. On the other hand, the figures for deaths from other forms of tuberculosis have, in relation to the total deaths, increased by 45% over last year's retu'n - a nost significant fact.

Denths from tubercular meningitis account for 22 of the total Tuberculosis deaths as against 17.77 in 1948 and a steady rise each year since 1946, while at the mare time there has been a progressive fall in the age at death.

Year

Total deaths from Tubercular Eeningitis

$ below 5 years

of agüe

1946

169

66

1947

264

81

1918

347

85

1949

580

86

Deaths from tuberculosis (other forms) have shown a signi- ficant increase over the fairly steady figures recorded in the period 1946-1948 and show a similar fall in the age at death.

Year

Total deaths of Tuberculosis & below 5 years

(other forms)

of are.

17

1948 1949

171

325

67

77

1993