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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
Hayes and Harlington 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hayes]
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TUBERCULOSIS.
New Cases and Mortality during 1939.
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | |||||
| M. | F. " | M. | P. | M. | P. | M. | F. | |
| 0 | - | - | — | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | — | 1 | |||||
| 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | X 1 | |||
| 15 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| 25 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | |||
| 35 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 45 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 55 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 65 and upwards | _ | _ | ||||||
| Total | 27 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 3 |
The ratio of non-notified tuberculosis deaths to toal tuberculosis
deaths is 50.0 per cent.
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, 1936, Section 172, for
the compulsory removal to hospital of persons suffering from tuberculosis.
(November» 1940.)