[The prevalence of digestive organ diseases and the organization of specialized care]

Analysis of 5942 case histories of inpatients and 15,482 case histories of outpatients helped reveal the morbidity structure with regard to diseases of the digestive system and assess these diseases incidence in the urban and rural population of different age and sex. The incidence of diseases of the biliferous duct was found to be 45.6, of peptic ulcer 21.4, and of pancreatitis 14.2 per 1000 population for the urban population and 7.2, 20.2, and 2.3/1000, respectively, for the rural population. The age of the urban patients is most often 40 to 49, that of the rural ones 50 to 59 years. Among surgical inpatients the share of cases with involvement of the biliferous duct was 8.8%, with gastroduodenal ulcer 14.1%, and with pancreatitis 6.4%. Diseases of the digestion organs rank fourth in the mortality structure; 92.3% of deaths are patients hospitalized in emergency.