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Wandsworth 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Tuberculosis
The total number of new cases which came to the notice of the
Department during 1965 was 192, the sources of information being
as follows:—
Primary notifications 150
Unnotified at death 6
Transfers from other areas 36
Total 192
The number of deaths certified as due to various forms of
tuberculosis was 18.
Particulars of the primary notifications and deaths during the year, classified by sexes and age-groups, are given in the following table : -
| Age Groups | Primary Notifications | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 year | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1-4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5-9 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 10-14 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 15-24 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| 25-44 | 23 | 13 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 45-64 | 31 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 65 and over | 9 | 6 | - | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals | 84 | 35 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
During the year a total of 438 home visits were made by
tuberculosis visitors.
Over the past decade great advances have been made in the
treatment, and hence in the prevention of tuberculosis, and the
disease, as the above figures indicate, is much less of a problem
than it was in years gone by. Nevertheless, its importance as a
public health hazard must not be under-estimated.
There are in the Borough three Chest Clinics, namely, the Wandsworth
Chest Clinic situated in Municipal Buildings, the Battersea
Chest Clinic at St. John's Hospital and the Balham Chest Clinic
at St. James' Hospital. The Wandsworth and Battersea Chest
Clinics draw their patients mainly from the Borough but the
Balham Chest Clinic also draws patients from the adjoining London
Borough of Lambeth.