Morbidity among Males and Females at Specific Ages: Eastern Health District of Baltimore

IN THE United States, growing interest in disability and medical care insurance, as well as group plans for provision of medical service presents an increasing need for statistics on the incidence of illness among persons of opposite sex and of different ages. Since 1920 data of this type have been made available for certain population groups by special morbidity studies of families. One of the studies gives illness rates by sex and age for the population of sample areas in the United States: the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care study of 19281931 (1). Two other studies provide data for local areas in Maryland: one made in Hagerstown from 1921-1924 (2) and the other conducted in the Eastern Health District of Baltimore from 1938-1943. A number of preliminary reports of the study in the Eastern Health District of Baltimore have been published (3, 4). The purpose of the present paper is to make available data from this study on illness by age and sex in more detail than has been given in the past.