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Degenerative
diseases
YEAR
If, as an indication of mortality from degenerative diseases, death from heart disease,
other circulatory diseases, cerebral vascular lesions, nephritis and bronchitis are combined,
the following trend becomes apparent:
Mortality (per 1,000) from cardiovascular, renal disease and bronchitis
1931-40 5.33 1950 5.99
1941-45 7.18 1951 6.82
1946 6.11 1952 6.64
1947 6.27 1953 6.21
1948 5.47 1954 5.75
1949 6.11
The true effects of the war cannot be separated from the statistical influences described
in the footnote on page 9. The rates in post-war years still appear to be running
higher than pre-war, and while over recent years the rates have fallen, so have the total
death-rates—thus the degenerative diseases continue to be responsible for over half the
death-rate which is doubtless a reflection of the increasing longevity of the population.
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