TABLE A5.

Frequency Rates of Disabling¹ Illness Receiving Bedside Care from a Visiting Nurse, and of Nursing Visits, 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

	Visiting Nurses’ Cases per 1,000 Persons					Nursing Visits 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	12.31	29.53	8.10	6.53	7.79	64.34	93.71	46.73	52.45	108.96
Communicable Diseases	5.40	21.41	.98	.31	.079	14.94	57.43	3.34	1.46	.19
Tonsillitis	.48	1.65	.26	.085	.011	1.31	4.06	.77	.40	.10
Pneumonia, All Forms	.41	.97	.15	.24	.46	3.71	7.59	1.92	2.48	4.62
Other Diseases of the Respiratory System	.96	2.39	.47	.53	.52	3.76	7.91	2.14	2.57	2.68
Appendicitis	.15	.16	.26	.12	.011	1.09	.75	1.85	1.08	.079
Other Diseases of the Digestive System	.21	.22	.086	.23	.47	2.08	1.08	.61	2.63	5.75
The Puerperal State: Live Births	2.29	–	4.52	2.81	–	13.57	–	25.25	17.16	–
Other Puerperal Conditions and Female Genital Diseases	.22	.011	.22	.33	.045	1.81	.024	1.60	2.82	.40
Cancer	.08	–	.007	.10	.48	1.69	–	.11	2.20	8.95
Rheumatism	.15	.11	.061	.17	.49	2.10	.98	.67	2.45	7.90
Degenerative Diseases	.45	.28	.14	.41	2.63	5.33	2.06	2.10	4.96	32.75
Tuberculosis, All Forms	.25	.064	.34	.31	.18	1.75	.50	2.04	2.26	1.27
Nervous and Mental Disease	.13	.18	.10	.12	.12	1.02	.96	.57	1.18	1.25
Orthopedic Impairments	.12	.13	.057	.083	.53	2.40	1.40	.78	1.88	16.55
Accidents	.34	.40	.23	.30	.83	3.08	1.67	1.16	3.16	14.31
All Other Causes	.67	1.56	.22	.39	.87	4.70	7.21	1.81	3.76	12.14

¹Disabling for seven consecutive days or longer in a twelve-month period. All confinements, fatalities, and hospital cases are included without reference to the duration of disability.

²Exclusive of persons of unknown age or unknown income.

³The classification by diagnosis is made on the basis of the sole or primary cause of the illness. The diseases included in the broad diagnosis groups are as follows:

Communicable Diseases: chiefly the communicable diseases of childhood: measles, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, scarlet fever, and diphtheria.

Other Diseases of the Respiratory System: influenza, colds, bronchitis, pleurisy, sinusitis, asthma, bay fever, and other diseases of the respiratory system except tonsillitis, pneumonia, and respiratory tuberculosis.

Other Diseases of the Digestive System: indigestion, biliousness, diarrhea, and enteritis, ulcer of the stomach or duodenum, diseases of the gall bladder or liver, and other diseases of the digestive system except appendicitis.

Other Puerperal Conditions and Female Genital Diseases: abortions, miscarriages, and stillbirths; complications of pregnancy; cysts of the ovaries, uterus, and tubes; displacement and lacerations of the female genital organs; pelvic inflammatory disease; and other nonpuerperal diseases of the female genital organs except cancer and nonmalignant tumors.

Degenerative Diseases: diabetes; cerebral hemorrhage and other forms of paralysis; diseases of the heart, arteriosclerosis and high blood pressure, and other diseases of the circulatory system, exclusive of hemorrhoids and varicose veins; nephritis and other nonvenereal diseases of the genitourinary system, exclusive of diseases of the female genital organs.

Nervous and Mental Disease: general paralysis of the insane and other forms of insanity; neurasthenia, locomotor ataxia. epilepsy, chorea and other diseases of the nervous system; and mental defects.

⁴In enumerating hospitalized illnesses, no limitation was imposed concerning the duration of the disability. Hospitalized illnesses include: (1) cases in which the hospitalized illness or injury was the sole cause of disability; (2) cases in which multiple causes were assigned to the illness, and hospital care was received for the primary, or any contributory, cause of the illness.

⁵Includes care in the home and special nursing care in the hospital.