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 Hayes]
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TUBERCULOSIS.
New Cases and Mortality during 1933.
Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Respiratory. | Non-Respiratory. | Respiratory. | Non-Respiratory | |||||
M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
5 | 1 | — | 2 | 3 | — | 1 | — | — |
15 | 5 | 5 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | — |
25 | 9 | 7 | 1 | — | 5 | 5 | — | — |
35 | 4 | 4 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 |
45 | 3 | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | — |
55 | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
65 and upwards | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Total | 24 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 2 |
The ratio of non-notified tuberculosis deaths to total
tuberculosis deaths is 20 per cent.; of these 60 per cent.
are non-respiratory.
No action has been taken under the Public Health
(Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925, relating to
tuberculous employees in the milk trade, nor under the
Public Health Act, 1925, Section 62, for the compulsory
removal to hospital of persons suffering from tuberculosis.
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