TABLE A1.

Frequency and Disability Rates of Illness Disabling¹ for Seven Consecutive Days or Longer in a Twelve-Month Period Classified by Diagnosis according to Age, in 1,581,577 White Persons² in Thirty-One Cities of 100,000 Population and over Canvassed in the National Health Survey, 1935–1936

	Disabling Illnesses per 1,000 Persons					Days of Disability per 1,000 Persons
Diagnosis3	All Ages	Under 15 Years	15–24	25–64	65 and Over	All Ages	Under 15 Years	15–24	25–64	65 and Over
All Causes	160.3	211.7	116.1	141.5	261.6	9.508	5,842	5,053	10,023	34,078
Communicable Diseases	25.5	93.4	8.0	3.6	2.0	634	2,146	208	157	134
Tonsillitis	10.0	25.7	8.2	4.6	.83	137	327	112	73	26
Pneumonia, All Forms	4.3	7.5	2.1	3.2	8.4	171	276	79	136	343
Other Diseases of the Respiratory System	32.8	40.7	24.0	31.1	43.9	780	642	437	838	1,901
Appendicitis	5.0	3.8	10.0	4.2	.88	196	125	365	186	59
Other Diseases of the Digestive System	7.0	3.2	2.9	9.0	17.0	518	94	144	707	1,700
The Puerperal State: Live Births	13.4	.021	25.1	16.9	–	311	.4	571	395	–
Other Puerperal Conditions and Female Genital Diseases	3.5	.10	3.6	5.3	.75	227	8	165	360	81
Cancer	1.0	.019	0.36	1.2	6.2	143	2	6	170	919
Rheumatism	5.3	1.2	1.4	6.8	21.3	665	81	111	761	3,948
Degenerative Diseases	12.8	3.5	3.1	13.4	77.8	1,573	242	310	1,600	10,875
Tuberculosis, All Forms	1.3	.48	1.5	1.6	.87	318	91	345	422	200
Nervous and Mental Disease	5.4	2.6	4.0	6.6	9.3	1,034	444	832	1,272	1,913
Orthopedic Impairments	2.9	1.2	1.5	2.9	14.5	879	286	379	872	5,012
Accidents	15.0	10.8	12.4	16.5	27.0	735	354	494	855	1,969
All Other Causes	15.1	17.3	8.3	14.6	31.0	1,186	723	495	1,218	4,999

See footnotes following Table A5.