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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

Beckenham 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beckenham]

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Table: TUBERCULOSIS.—TABLE II.

TUBERCULOSIS.—TABLE II.

Year.No. of Deaths from Phthisis.Deaths from other Tubercular Diseases.Total Deaths all forms of Tubercular Disease.Total Tubercular Death Rate per 1,000 Population.Phthisis Death Rate per 1,000 Population.
189119..........9.7
189219..........9
18939..........4
189412..........5
189512..........5
189621..........9
189718..........7
189827.........1.7
189922..........8
19009918.7.3
190119625.9.7
190212618.6.4
1903151025.9.5.5
1904121022.7.4
1905219301.0.7
190021526.8.7
190741317.5.1
1908101828.9.3
190915722.7.4
191021425.8.6
191117, 522.6.5
191220929.8.6
191318927.8.5
191423427.8.6.6
1915141024.7.4
1916288361.1.9
19172711381.2.8
19182717441.4.9
191922931.9.6
192015520.6.4

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In suitable areas there are many advantages to be derived from
an arrangement of this kind. It prevents overlapping of officials,
and there is definite value obtained in having the preventive work
of the Local Sanitary Authority linked up in as intimate a manner
as possible with the treatment and curative side of Tuberculosis
work.
At the end of the year the total number of Beckenham cases
who were suffering from active disease was as follows: —
Pulmonary Tuberculosis 101
Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis 42