. Denmark; its medical organization, hygiene and demography . of diphtheria, intermittent fever, scurvy, cerebro-spinal meningitis, and influenza. Asiatic cholera carried off from6—7000 individuals in 1853. Malignant scarlet fever and diphtheriaepidemics prevail from 1857—58. About 10,000 individuals fell vic-tims to them. 1864—66 show the results of war and diphtheriaand typhoid fever epidemics. The death-rates given in the diagram afford no certain basis on whichto answer the question as to the decrease of mortality during the pre-sent century. The material must be first disintegrated, partl
. Denmark; its medical organization, hygiene and demography . of diphtheria, intermittent fever, scurvy, cerebro-spinal meningitis, and influenza. Asiatic cholera carried off from6—7000 individuals in 1853. Malignant scarlet fever and diphtheriaepidemics prevail from 1857—58. About 10,000 individuals fell vic-tims to them. 1864—66 show the results of war and diphtheriaand typhoid fever epidemics. The death-rates given in the diagram afford no certain basis on whichto answer the question as to the decrease of mortality during the pre-sent century. The material must be first disintegrated, partly as tothe three divisions of the country, viz., the Metropolis, provincialtowns, and rural districts, in which the mortality is different; partly as * The actual figures are to be found in Falbe-Haxsex and Scharlixg : Statisticsof Denmark, vol. I, fasciculus 6. MORTALITY IN DENMARK DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 423 to sex and age. The material from the first third part of the centuryis unfortunately so incomplete and faulty that such a separation is. 18871889 Scarlet Fever; Measles. Intermittent Fever. Asiatic Cholera. Scarlet Fever; Diph-teria. lDiphteria; TyphoidJ (Enteric) Fever. impossible, consequently only the last 50 yearsThe results are as follows: can be 424 MORTALITY IN DENMARK DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Table I. Infant Mortality 1835—84. Number of Deaths per 1000 Living Births. Age in Years. OS CO 1 Hi CO00 1 o 00 OS 1?«* 00 kO 1 oId 00 OS* \ Ki00 «0 I o 00 os SO i SO 00 o 00 OS00 00 ? Io 0000 93 Oft o 01 73 IS 0—— 206105 22894 254124 235104 229107 228114 21798 247103 24486 231 77 321 322 378 339 336 342 315 350 330 308 §fa 0— 182104 20898 217115 213104 201108 201113 190102 20599 22094 200 82 H 0-5. 286 306 332 317 309 314 292 304 314 282 1 o S 0— 153 80 14266 161 88 15671 16590 165 86 167100 16371 17173 17263 H 233 208 249 227 255 251 267 234 244 235 3 a m 73 1fa 0——5. 12890 12663 144 85 13373
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