FROM CERTAIN CHRONIC DISEASES AND DISABILITIES ABOUT AS FOLLOWS:

THIS INDICATES THE SCOPE OF CRITICAL PROBLEMS IN CARE, AS WELL

AS REASONS FOR IMPROVING EFFORTS TO PREVENT, CORRECT OR CURB

DISABLING CONDITIONS.

OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE

OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE BUILDS UP WITH

AGE. MANY DISEASES, SUCH AS VARIOUS TYPES OF PNEUMOCONIOSIS,

ARE CUMULATIVE, DEVELOPING IN THE INDIVIDUAL OVER THE YEARS

AND CAUSING A HEALTH CRISIS LATER IN LIFE. AS WELL AS

PNEUMOCONIOSIS, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH THREATS INCLUDE LEAD

POISONING, CANCER, ORGANIC SOLVENT POISONING, CARBON MONOXIDE,

RADIATION, AIR POLLUTION, HEAT, SKIN DISEASES, NOISE, AND

TOXIC PLASTICS.

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING NEWER MANU

FACTURING PROCESSES, IS ACCOMPANIED BY A VARIETY OF HAZARDS TO

HEALTH.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

LEADING INFECTIOUS DISEASES CON

TINUING TO CLAIM A HEAVY TOLL IN THE 45 AND OVER AGE GROUP
ARE TUBERCULOSIS AND SYPHILIS. WHILE BOTH OF THESE DISEASES

HAVE BEEN MARKEDLY REDUCED, THEY STILL CAUSE A HEAVY, NEEDLESS

SACRIFICE IN LIVES, PRODUCTIVITY AND DOLLARS.

The four leading causes of death accounted for 72% of all deaths. The first three of these, heart, cancer and vascular lesions occurred largely among the older age groups,
with only 4%, 10%, and 3%, respectively, under 45 years.

However, in the fourth leading cause, accidental deaths, 51% were under 45 years of age. With the exception of deaths due to immaturity and congenital malformations,
which occur largely in infancy, accidental deaths is the only one of the ten leading causes with approximately half (51%) of the deaths under 45 years of age. The fifth
cause, pneumonia and influenza, follows in line in this respect with 32% of the deaths under 45 years of age.

It is interesting to note that diabetes, the sixth leading cause of death, and heart disease, the first leading cause, follow a similar percentage distribution of age at death.

Statistical Methods Section Michigan Department of Health

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LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH

BY AGE GROUPS---MICHIGAN, 1957

Diseases of the heart lead as a cause of death among all age groups 35 years and over and constitute an increasingly larger percentage of the total deaths in each successively older age group.

Accidents lead as a cause of death in all age groups under 35 years with the exception of infants under 1 year, and appear among the 5 leading causes in all age groups except the under 1 year and the 65 & over groups.

Malignant neoplasms first appear in the age group 1-4 years as the 4th ranking cause of death. It is the 2nd leading cause in the 5-14 years age group and maintains this position in all successive age groups until shifting to 3rd position in the 65 & over group.

Pneumonia and influenza has changed the pattern of the 5 leading causes of death by age group when compared with the previous year the result of the influenza epidemic in the later part of 1957. This cause changed from 4th to 2nd position in the 1-4 age group and moved from 4th to 3rd position in the 5-14 group. It became one of the 5 leading causes in the 15-24 and 65 & over age groups, ranking 3rd in the 15-24 group and 5th, replacing accidents, in the 65 & over group.

Statistical Methods Section
Michigan Department of Health

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