[Analysis of mortality in the Zilina district]

From death certificates assemble in the Zilina district in three years (1968-1970) the authors prepared and coded questionnaires with 29 criteria. In the present article they submit some results obtained by automatic computing and biometric evaluation of these data. In the introduction they draw attention to and explain the rising trend of mortality in the Zilina district as well as in the Slovak Socialist Republic. Significant differences were revealed in the marital status of men and women with a predominance of married man and widows. The investigated variations of the number of deceased per day or week is not statistically significant; they were significant only in the course of the year with the maximum of deaths in March and the minimum in August. The specific mortality by decades revealed that men have from birth throughout life a higher death rate than women. As regards causes of death according to the 17 classes of the International Classification four classes dominate similarly an in the entire Slovak Socialist Republic, i. e. cardiovascular diseases 40.8%, tumours 17.8%, respiratory diseases 17.2% and accidents 7.5% all diagnoses. The order of diseases is the same for men and women only in the five most numerous classes and even there is a significant difference in the mortality level in three. Trichotomic classification of communities throws some light on the problem of causes of death of the rural and urban population. The last doctor attending the patient before death was in 48,3% the health community doctor, in 39,1% the hospital, in 8,9% (accidents and acute attacks) nobody whereby the percentage structure of men and women differs significantly also in this indicator. Finally the authors draw attention to the fact that the number of post mortem examinations (31,8%) is highest, as compared with the Central Slovak region (19,9%), the Slovak Socialist Republic (21,1%), the Czech Socialist Republic (29,8%) and the CSSR (27,6%).