1959 Volume 8 Issue 2-3 Pages 321-326
Mortality from appoplexy is increasing year by year in Ibaraki Prefecture, but statistical surveys are not so complete here as in other prefectures. Undei the circumstances, the authors have undertaken a survey on the status of so-called appoplexy in As-machi, a town situated in the southern part of Ibaraki Prefecture.
The findings taught us that the disease had invariably been ranking first in the list of causes of deaths since 1949; that mortality from that disease was on the increase from year to year; and that there existed a tendency for the increase of such mortality in the 50-59 age bracket, those in their prime of life. The matter threatens to assume a serious aspect. Annual deaths from appoplexy in that town were about 50, number of men dying from it counted scmewhat more than that of women, and the ages showing the highest frequencies were from. 66 to 68-hat is to say this age bracket should be regarded as the “danger zone” of appoplexy. Attacks of appoplexy and deaths from it were most frequent in the cold winter season as shown by the present statistics, though it seemed somewhat strange to find such a high incidence of appoplexy in that town where the climate is mild and with few snowfalls unlike Akita, Nagano, Niigata and other northern areas where the mortality is high. The authors intend to continue their study for the explication of this phenomenon.
