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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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Quarterly revision of tuberculosis register:—
Table 48
| Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | |
| Number of cases on register at December | ||||
| 31, 1949 | 1,389 | 1,031 | 236 | 306 |
| Number of cases added during the year | 264 | 249 | 19 | 33 |
| Number of cases deducted during the year (deaths, transfers, etc.) | 151 | 142 | 22 | 22 |
| Number of cases on register at December 31, 1950 | 1,502 | 1,138 | 233 | 317 |
Summary of Statistics as to Tuberculosis for the last ten years
Table 49
| Year | Population | No. of new cases notified (all forms) (excluding inward transfers) | Notif. rate per thousand pop. | Deaths | Death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis per thousand population | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All forms | Respiratory | |||||
| 1941 | 148,150 | 315 | 2.13 | 156 | 137 | 0.92 |
| 1942 | 161,800 | 354 | 2.20 | 131 | 118 | 0.73 |
| 1943 | 168,530 | 403 | 2.40 | 150 | 128 | 0.76 |
| 1944 | 163,320 | 390 | 2.39 | 146 | 129 | 0.79 |
| 1945 | 171,280 | 371 | 2.17 | 138 | 122 | 0.71 |
| 1946 | 207,410 | 437 | 2.11 | 126 | 110 | 0.53 |
| 1947 | 221,170 | 426 | 1 .93 | 134 | 121 | 0.55 |
| 1948 | 226,100 | 502 | 2.22 | 119 | 109 | 0.48 |
| 1949 | 227,700 | 371 | 1.63 | 107 | 92 | 0.40 |
| 1950 | 228,300 | 406 | 1.78 | 72 | 66 | 0.29 |
Note:—The 1950 death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis for the County
of London was 0.36.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930. Environmental
investigations
Investigations are made under the above regulations into the
home conditions of persons notified as suffering from tuberculosis. This
work includes not only visits in respect of primary notifications, i.e., the
first notification that a person is suffering from tuberculosis, but
applies also to persons diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis in some
other district who subsequently move into Lewisham.
The work is carried out by the sanitary inspectors and infectious
disease visitors. The primary object of this visiting is to ascertain
under what housing conditions the patient and his contacts are living
and if any conditions are found which call for action by the health
department, the necessary measures are taken by the district sanitary
inspector or myself.