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Chislehurst 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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Whooping Cough.
Four hundred and forty-eight notifications of this disease were
received during 1953, as against five hundred and thirty in 1952.
This figure represents an attack rate of 5.3 per 1.000 total
population.
Eight of these cases were removed to hospital and the
remainder home nursed.
There were no deaths recorded from this disease in the area.
Tuberculosis.
Recordings in the Register for the year ended 31st December. 1953. are as under :—
| Respiratory | Other | Forms | Total number of cases | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| On Register at 1st January, 1953 .... | 635 | 629 | 59 | 62 | 1,385 |
| New cases notified during 1953 | 39 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 78 |
| Number of cases coming to knowledge after death | - | - | - | - | - |
| Restored to Register | 2 | 6 | — | — | 8 |
| Inward Transfers | 31 | 33 | 1 | — | 65 |
| 707 | 704 | 61 | 64 | 1,536 | |
| Deletions, deaths, removals, recoveries, etc | 43 | 41 | — | 3 | 87 |
| Number of cases on Register at | - | - | - | - | - |
| 31st December, 1953 | 664 | 663 | 61 | 61 | 1.449 |
The number of new cases notified during the year was the same
as for the previous year. i.e seventy-eight.
There were eighty-seven deletions from the register as against
ninety for the previous year.
New Cases and Mortality, 1953.
| Age Groups | New cases notified or otherwise revealed. (Not including Inward Transfers)* | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonarv | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 5 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5—14 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 15—44 | 16 | 27 | — | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | — |
| 45—64 | 13 | 3 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 65 and over | 3 | — | — | — | 5 | — | — | — |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 39 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |
| — | — | — | — | |||||
| *Inward Transfers | 31 | 33 | 1 | — | ||||
| - | - | — | — | |||||
| Totals | 70 | 69 | 2 | 2 | ||||