[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough] page 61

Lewisham 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]

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Summary of statistics as to tuberculosis for the last ten years

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Table 43

Year	Population	New casesnotified (all forms) (excluding inward transfers)	Notif. rate per thousand pop.	Deaths		Death rate from resp. tuberculosis per thousand pop.
Year	Population	New casesnotified (all forms) (excluding inward transfers)	Notif. rate per thousand pop.	All forms	Respiratory	Lewisham	County of London
1946	207,410	437	2.11	126	110	0.53	0.59
1947	221,170	426	1 .93	134	121	0.55	0.60
1948	226,100	502	2.22	119	109	048	0.56
1949	227,700	371	1.63	107	92	0.40	0.47
1950	228,300	406	1.78	72	66	0.29	0.36
1951	227,200	299	1.32	68	60	0.26	0.34
1952	227,100	307	1.35	42	35	0.15	0.28
1953	225,800	341	1.51	48	44	0.19	0.21
1954	224,200	256	1.14	38	36	0.16	0.18
1955	223,400	271	1.21	26	22	0.10	0.16

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General comments on tuberculosis are made in the introduction
of this report (page 4).

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Tuberculosis — environmental conditions

Case papers of patients attending the Lewisham Chest Clinic in 1955 have been analysed in 349 cases with the following results :—

	Cases	%*
Males	181	52
Females	168	48
Social classification :—
Class I	1	1
Class II	29	9
Class III	227	69
Class IV	34	11
Class V	32	10
Not classifiable	26	—
Rooms occupied :—
2 or more rooms per person	43	12
1-2 rooms per person	212	61
Less than 1 room per person	92	27
No information ...	2	—
Accommodation :—
Separate bed	143	41
Separate bedroom	108	31
Condition of premises occupied :—
Good	246	72
Fair	80	23
Poor	16	5
No information	7	-

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*Excluding cases not classified