ANNUAL SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS—1962

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1102-1105
Author(s):  
Myron E. Wegman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Health Statistics ◽  
The Public ◽  
True State ◽  
State Of Affairs

FOR A number of years there have been included in the pages of Pediatrics digests of the annual summary of provisional vital statistics published by the National Vital Statistics Division of the National Center for Health Statistics in the Public Health Service. This year the data have been presented in slightly different form, with a more detailed summary than usually available, as Volume 11, No. 13, of the Monthly Vital Statistics Report. The data, although provisional, are considered to reflect very closely the true state of affairs. Methods of making the estimates and the basis for confidence in their reliability have been explained in detail in previous reports.

ANNUAL SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS—1961

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1000-1004
Author(s):  
Myron E. Wegman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Death Rates ◽  
The Public

THIS year's summary of provisional vital statistics for the United States in 1961 indicates that over-all birth and death rates are essentially unchanged from 1960. Each year the National Vital Statistics Division, a unit of the Public Health Service, publishes estimated rates that, except when specifically noted, are provisional and based on a 10% sample of reported births and deaths. Experience has shown, however that final national figures agree closely with these estimates, which are derived from monthly reports on certificates filed in registration offices around the country. The rates for 1961 are published in Volume 10, No. 13, April 30, 1962 (Part 1) and July 31, 1962 (Part 2), of the Monthly Vital Statistics Report.

ANNUAL SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS—1960

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-327
Author(s):  
Myron E. Wegman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Service ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Office

Each year the National Vital Statistics Division (formerly, National Office of Vital Statistics), a unit of the Public Health Service, publishes a summary of the provisional vital statistics of the United States of America, based on estimates derived from monthly reports on certificates filed in registration offices around the country. For 1960, this is published in Volume 9, No. 13, May 31, 1961, of the Monthly Vital Statistics Report. Previous experience has shown that the estimates reflect quite well, with certain reservations, the final reports available much later. As in previous years1 an abstract of the data most likely to interest pediatricians is presented herewith.

PUBLIC HEALTH, NURSING, MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1095-1096
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Medical Social Work ◽  
National Office ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
High Level ◽  
Monthly Variations

AS PART of its Monthly Vital Statistics Report, the National Office of Vital Statistics of the U. S. Public Health Service publishes each year an estimate of the most important statistical indices of the previous year. In the March 12, 1957 issue of the Report, Vol. 5, No. 13, Part 1, the annual summary of provisional vital statistics for the year is presented. Monthly variations for the four major indices, Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Infant Mortality, are shown in Figure 1, [See FIG. 1. in Source Pdf.] which compares the data for 1956 with 1955. It is to be noted that the data are provisional and subject to connection. Previous experience, however, indicates little likelihood of more than very minor changes. Births in 1956 climbed to another recordbreaking high with registered births reaching 4,168,000, on a rate of 24.9 pen 1,000 population. Addition of an estimate for unregistered births raises the total to 4,220,000, or a rate of 25.2. The birth rate has maintained a consistently high level for more than a decade, having achieved a high point of 26.6 in 1947. As in previous years, highest rates centered in the south, lowest in the northeastern areas of the country. Deaths in 1956 totaled 1,565,000, a rate of 9.4 per 1,000 population, slightly higher than the rate of 9.3 in 1955 and the low of 9.2 reached in 1954.

Programs of the Cancer Control Program—U. S. Public Health Service

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-528
Author(s):  
Charles J. A. Schulte
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Environmental Control ◽  
Cancer Control ◽  
Control Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cancer Control Program

ON JANUARY 1, 1967, the Cancer Control Program will become part of the National Center for Chronic Disease Control within the Public Health Service's new Bureau of Disease Prevention and Environmental Control. Our primary mission is to stimulate and encourage the application of currently available techniques of cancer prevention, cancer detection, and cancer control to the community at the grass roots level. If this will be the case after the reorganization remains to be seen. Figure 1 shows the new organization of the Public Health Service. By way of illustration, I think it would be well to briefly outline a few of our activities. An area of heavy emphasis has been the use of the Papanicolaou smears for cervical cancer control. These programs have been responsible for developing certified cytotechnology training schools, supporting and training large numbers of cytotechnicians. In addition, we are supporting some 90 hospital-based cervical cancer screening projects across the country. A program to encourage the general practitioner to screen his private patients in the office is jointly sponsored by the American Academy of General Practice and the Cancer Control Program. The very grave problem in the United States of smoking and carcinoma of the lung is the major responsibility of tile National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health, a part of the Division of Chronic Diseases which developed out of the Cancer Control Program. We are engaged in a number of developmental projects, such as the flexible fiber optic proctosigmoidoscope. We hope to be able to produce a proctosigmoidoscope that will reach the splenic flexure.

Letters to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 691-693
Author(s):  
STARKEY D. DAVIS ◽  
RALPH J. WEDGWOOD
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Placebo Group ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
The One ◽  
Isoniazid Prophylaxis

Dr. Yerushalmy points out the excess mortality in the isoniazid pupulation in two trials: contacts of new cases and patients in mental hospitals. He failed to mention that the Public Health Service has conducted five other isoniazid prophylaxis trials (Table I). In the six trials listed, excluding the one in institutions, the isoniazid groups had more deaths in three trials, the placebo group had more deaths in two trials, and in one trial the number of deaths in each group was equal.

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