Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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
Table 41
Year | Population | New cases notified (all forms) (excluding inward transfers) | Notif. rate per thousand pop. | Deaths | Death rate from resp. tuberculosis per thousand pop. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All forms | Respiratory | Lewisham | County of London | ||||
1947 | 221,170 | 426 | 1.93 | 134 | 121 | 0.55 | 0.60 |
1948 | 226,100 | 502 | 2.22 | 119 | 109 | 0.48 | 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 |
1956 | 222,100 | 212 | 0.95 | 29 | 29 | 0.13 | 0.13 |
General comments on tuberculosis are made in the introduction
of this report.
Tuberculosis — environmental conditions
Case papers of patients attending the Lewisham Chest Clinic in 1956 have been analysed in 250 cases with the following results:—
Cases | %* | |
---|---|---|
Males | 129 | |
Females | 121 | |
Social classification:— | ||
Class I | 3 | |
Class II | 15 | |
Class III | 154 | |
Class IV | 32 | |
Class V | 22 | |
Not classifiable | 24 | — |
Rooms occupied:— | ||
2 or more rooms per person | 40 | |
1—2 rooms per person | 134 | |
Less than 1 room per person | 73 | |
No information | 3 | — |
Accommodation:— | ||
Separate bed | 113 | |
Separate bedroom | 78 | |
Condition of premises occupied: | ||
Good | 165 | |
Fair | 75 | |
Poor | 4 | |
No information | 6 | — |