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XXII.—The Sex and Age Incidence of Mortality from Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Scotland and in its Groups of Registration Districts since 1861

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

C. Hunter Stewart*
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University of Edinburgh
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No subject in the domain of preventive medicine is attracting greater attention at present than that of the prevention of tuberculosis, more especially that of tuberculosis of the lungs. The fact that this disease is one of the largest contributors to the death-rate makes the question pressing, and the great diminution of the mortality from it that has already taken place in most civilised countries makes the prospect of still greater diminution most hopeful.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1912

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page 355 note * Transactions British Congress on Tuberculosis, 1901, vol. ii. p. 350

page 358 note * There is now a tendency to a relatively greater increase in the reduction of female mortality at earlier ages in Scotland, shown by the percentage reductions at age 25–35 years being the same in both sexes during period 1901–7. From 55 years onwards the reduction among females in Scotland has been always greater than in England and Wales.

page 358 note † “Memorandum on Mortality from Tubercular Phthisis in England and Wales during the last Forty Years,” by Tatham, John M.D., F.E.C.P., Transactions of British Congress on Tuberculosis, vol. ii., 1902, p. 497.Google Scholar

page 359 note * The female rate did not exceed the male rate in all the principal towns. In. Edinburgh, e.g., it has been always much less than the male rate. This is discussed later.

page 360 note * Supplement to 65th Annual Report, p. xcv, and Detailed Annual Reports for 1901–7.

page 361 note * Corrected to census England 1901. This correction makes the male rates in the Scottish and English areas strictly comparable. In both countries the urban male rates are practically the same.

page 361 note † 1891–1900 corrected to census England 1891.

1901–7 corrected to census England 1891.

page 361 note ‡ 1891–1900 corrected to census Scotland 1891.

1901–7 corrected to census Scotland 1901.

page 361 note § For constitution of these areas see Table VI.

page 362 note * Corrected to sex and age constitution of Scotland, census 1901.

page 363 note * Corrected to sex and age constitution, Scotland, 1901.

page 367 note * Census England and Wales 1891, vol. iv. p. 40.

page 369 note * Article “The Local Incidence of Tuberculosis,” by Dr Scurfield, Public Health, vol. xxii., No. 10.