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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
Wandsworth 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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TUBERCULOSIS
Notifications
The total number of new cases which came to the notice of the
Department during 1959 was 488 compared with 589 in 1958.
The sources of information regarding the new cases were as follows:
| Primary notifications on Form A | 260 |
| Notifications from H.M. Forces | 1 |
| Unnotified at death | 2 |
| Transfers from other sanitary authorities | 228 |
| Total | 491 |
Four hundred and eighty-nine cases were added to the notification
register during the year and 208 cases who had removed, recovered or
died, were taken off. The number remaining on the register at the end
of the year was 6,061.
Deaths
The number of deaths certified as due to various forms of tuberculosis
was 38.
Particulars of the new cases and deaths during the year, classified by sexes and age-groups are given in the following table:
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 year | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1-2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 |
| 2-5 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5-10 | 4 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10-15 | 3 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15-25 | 42 | 55 | 2 | 7 | — | — | — | — |
| 25-45 | 94 | 99 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | — | — |
| 45-65 | 86 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 65 and upwards | 19 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 2 | — |
| Totals | 259 | 208 | 11 | 13 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 2 |