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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lewisham 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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The age distribution of the new cases of tuberculosis notified and the deaths from tuberculosis during the year are shewn in the following table:—
| Age periods | New cases notified | Deaths | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Totals | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Totals | |||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 10 | - | - | ||||
| 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 2 | - | — | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 8 | ||||||
| 15 | 22 | 37 | - | 5 | 22 | 42 | 39 | 30 | 3 | 4 | 42 | 34 |
| 20 | 32 | 40 | 2 | 4 | 34 | 44 | ||||||
| 25 | 44 | 43 | 4 | 9 | 48 | 52 | ||||||
| 35 | 36 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 39 | 19 | ||||||
| 45 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 8 | 34 | 7 | - | - | 34 | 7 |
| 55 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 4 | ||||||
| 65 | 12 | 2 | - | 1 | 12 | 2 | 9 | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| Totals | 202 | 165 | 25 | 34 | 227 | 199 | 84 | 37 | 5 | 8 | 89 | 45 |
Town Hall, S.E.6
19 July, 1948
E. H. R. SMITHARD,
Medical Officer of Health