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 London County Council]
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Metropolitan Boroughs | Estimated home population mid 1961 | Pulmonary | New notifications | Deaths from tuberculosis | Tuberculosis deaths per 1,000 population | Pulmonary tuberculosis deaths per 1,000 population aged 15 and over | Number of tuberculosis cases on clinic registers at 31.12.61 | Cases on register per 1,000 population | ||||||
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Tuberculosis of Meninges and C.N.S. | Other non-pulmonary tuberculosis | Total | New notifications per 1,000 population | Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary tuberculosis | Total deaths | Total | Percentage of pulmonary cases positive during 1961 | ||||||
Chelsea | 48,490 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 0.43 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 0.21 | 0.23 | 359 | 3.6 | 7.4 |
Fulham | 111,500 | 63 | 1 | 5 | 69 | 0.62 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 1,206 | 1.1 | 10.8 |
Hammersmith | 108,010 | 87 | - | 15 | 102 | 0.94 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 1,456 | 1.8 | 13.5 |
Kensington. | 169,080 | 168 | 2 | 25 | 195 | 1.15 | 16 | 1 | 17 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 1,315 | 1.9 | 7.8 |
Hampstead | 96,990 | 54 | — | 16 | 70 | 0.72 | 1 | — | 1 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 979 | 4.0 | 10.1 |
Paddington.. | 113,980 | 148 | — | 14 | 162 | 1.42 | 14 | 1 | 15 | 0.13 | 0.15 | 1,320 | 2.6 | 11.6 |
St. Marylebone | 67,690 | 40 | — | 2 | 42 | 0.62 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 0.13 | 0.13 | 877 | 1.7 | 13.0 |
St. Pancras | 125,340 | 137 | 1 | 9 | 147 | 1.17 | 9 | — | 9 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 1,119 | 2.1 | 8.9 |
Westminster, City of | 86,680 | 73 | — | 1 | 74 | 0.85 | 7 | — | 7 | 0.08 | 0.09 | 844 | 6.0 | 9.7 |
Finsbury | 33,020 | 34 | — | 3 | 37 | 1.12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 276 | 5.8 | 8.4 |
Holborn | 20,520 | 22 | - | 2 | 24 | 1.17 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.10 | 0.06 | 262 | 3.3 | 12.8 |
Islington | 227,170 | 238 | 1 | 22 | 261 | 1.15 | 22 | 1 | 23 | 0.10 | 0.12 | 2,450 | 1.5 | 10.8 |
Hackney | 163,180 | 100 | 1 | 11 | 112 | 0.69 | 12 | 2 | 14 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 1,736 | 2.1 | 10.6 |
Shoreditch | 40,530 | 26 | — | 1 | 27 | 0.67 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 0.30 | 0.04 | 330 | 7.9 | 8.1 |
Stoke Newington | 52,180 | 46 | — | 3 | 49 | 0.94 | 6 | — | 6 | 0.11 | 015 | 775 | 0.7 | 14.9 |
Bethnal Green | 46,490 | 33 | - | 4 | 37 | 0.80 | 4 | — | 4 | 0.09 | 0.11 | 737 | 1.7 | 15.9 |
City of London | 4,600 | 5 | — | — | 5 | 1.09 | — | — | — | 69 | 4.6 | 15.0 | ||
Poplar | 65,850 | 40 | — | 7 | 47 | 0.71 | 10 | — | 10 | 0.15 | 0.20 | 591 | 2.4 | 9.0 |
Stepney | 91,710 | 99 | — | 9 | 108 | 1.18 | 11 | — | 11 | 0.12 | 0.16 | 1,298 | 1.5 | 14.2 |
Deptford | 68,220 | 97 | — | 3 | 100 | 1.47 | 5 | — | 5 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 1,058 | 2.5 | 15.5 |
Greenwich | 85,240 | 32 | -_ | 4 | 36 | 0.42 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0.08 | 0.09 | 1,046 | 1.2 | 12.3 |
Woolwich . | 146,850 | 53 | - | 3 | 56 | 0.38 | 19 | 19 | 0.13 | 0.17 | 1,634 | 1.4 | 11.1 | |
Camberwell | 173,980 | 148 | 2 | 15 | 165 | 0.95 | 19 | 1 | 20 | 0.11 | 0.14 | 987 | 1.1 | 5.7 |
Lewisham | 220,910 | 112 | — | 11 | 123 | 0.56 | 18 | 1 | 19 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 2,473 | 0.7 | 11.2 |
Bermondsey | 51,770 | 36 | — | 3 | 39 | 0.75 | 5 | — | 5 | 0.10 | 0.12 | 654 | 1.6 | 126 |
Lambeth | 221,960 | 126 | 1 | 17 | 144 | 0.65 | 27 | 2 | 29 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 3,134 | 2.0 | 14.1 |
Southwark | 86,270 | 80 | — | 7 | 87 | 1.01 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 0.12 | 0.14 | 1,461 | 2.1 | 16.9 |
Battersea | 104,980 | 59 | — | 5 | 64 | 0.61 | 12 | 1 | 13 | 0.12 | 0.15 | 1,050 | 2.1 | 10.0 |
Wandsworth | 346,790 | 169 | 2 | 20 | 191 | 0.55 | 25 | 5 | 30 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 3,712 | 1.7 | 10.7 |
LONDON | 3,179,980 | 2,344 | 12 | 238 | 2,594 | 0.82 | 294 | 24 | 318 | 010 | 0.12 | 35,208 | 1.9 | 11.1 |