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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

Southwark 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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disinfection or to visits made to the cases. The patients appear to have
realised that what has been done has been entirely for their benefit, and
I think that an extension of this notification could well be made in the
direction of all hospital and dispensary patients before compulsory
notification of private persons is decided upon.

Table: TABLE 31.TUBERCULOSIS OP THE LUNG (including Phthisis) AND OTHER FORMS OF TUBERCULOSIS.Mortality Rates per 1,000,000 persons living.

TABLE 31.

TUBERCULOSIS OP THE LUNG (including Phthisis) AND OTHER FORMS OF TUBERCULOSIS.

Mortality Rates per 1,000,000 persons living.

YEAR.Tuberculosis of the Lung (including Phthisis)Other forms of Tuberculosis.
Males (All Ages).Females (All ages).Males (All ages).Females (All ages)Children (under five).
1901294420608136804062
1902353317827827174600
1903285019329448315137
1904309217057686944693
1905262416246706633315
1906261614857456233772
1907257914715715733062
1908226715615884423062
1909236412055395882237
Averages276316477136513771