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 Shoreditch]
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forms of tuberculosis, respectively, were 0.82, 0.12 and 0.94. The figures for 1937,
therefore, represent an increase of 0.07 in the pulmonary and an increase of 0.04
in the non.pulmonary rate on the average of the five previous years, making an increase
for all forms of the disease of 0.11 compared with the average of those years.
The following tables show the incidence of cases of tuberculosis and of deaths
from that disease for a number of years for Shoreditch, London and England and
Wales respectively:—
NOTIFICATIONS PER 1,000 POPULATION
Table No. 56
Year. | Shoreditch. | London. | England and Wales. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pul. | Non. pul. | All forms. | Pul. | Non. pul. | All forms. | Pul. | Non. pul. | All forms. | |
1925 | 2.28 | 0.57 | 2.85 | 1 .64 | 0.45 | 2.09 | 1 .49 | 0.49 | 1.98 |
1926 | 2.12 | 0.58 | 2.70 | 1.50 | 0.45 | 1.95 | 1 .43 | 0.47 | 1.90 |
1927 | 1.77 | 0.50 | 2.27 | 1 .50 | 0.42 | 1.92 | 1 .37 | 0.45 | 1.82 |
1928 | 2.03 | 0.53 | 2.56 | 1 .51 | 0.41 | 1.92 | 1.34 | 0.45 | 1.79 |
1929 | 2.18 | 0.36 | 2.54 | 1.60 | 0.37 | 1.97 | 1.32 | 0.42 | 1.74 |
1930 | 1.79 | 0.41 | 2.20 | 1 .49 | 0.34 | 1.83 | 1 .26 | 0.42 | 1.68 |
1931 | 1.66 | 0.38 | 2.04 | 1.45 | 0.32 | 1.77 | 1.24 | 0.40 | 1.64 |
1932 | 1.25 | 0.27 | 1.52 | 1.40 | 0.31 | 1.71 | 1.16 | 0.38 | 1.54 |
1933 | 1.68 | 0.32 | 2.00 | 1.37 | 0.29 | 1.66 | 1.10 | 0.35 | 1.45 |
1934 | 1.45 | 0.29 | 1.74 | 1.40 | 0.21 | 1.61 | 1.19 | 0.40 | 1.59 |
1935 | 1.22 | 0.31 | 1.53 | 1 .27 | 0.27 | 1.54 | 0.97 | 0.31 | 1.28 |
1936 | 1.12 | 0.24 | 1.36 | 1 .25 | 0.25 | 1.50 | 0.96 | 0.30 | 1.26 |
1937 | 1.37 | 0.33 | 1.70 | 1.33 | 0.25 | 1.58 | 0.96 | 0.31 | 1.27 |
DEATH RATES PER 1,000 POPULATION
Table No. 57
Year. | Shoreditch. | London. | England and Wales. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pul. | Non. pul. | All forms. | Pul. | Non. pul. | All forms. | Pul. | Non. pul. | All forms. | |
1925 | 1.10 | 0.30 | 1.40 | 0.80 | 0.20 | 1 .00 | 0.83 | 0.21 | 1.04 |
1926 | 1.20 | 0.20 | 1.40 | 0.80 | 0.10 | 0.90 | 0.77 | 0.19 | 0.96 |
1927 | 0.82 | 0.25 | 1.07 | 0.91 | 014 | 1.05 | 0.79 | 0.18 | 0.97 |
1928 | 1.20 | 0.16 | 1.36 | 0.89 | 0.14 | 1.03 | 0.76 | 0.17 | 0.93 |
1929 | 0.98 | 0.18 | 1.16 | 0.96 | 0.13 | 1.09 | 0.79 | 0.17 | 0.96 |
1930 | 0.88 | 0.13 | 1.01 | 0.87 | 0.12 | 0.99 | 0.74 | 0.16 | 0.90 |
1931 | 0.90 | 0.10 | 1.00 | 0.90 | 0.13 | 1.03 | 0.74 | 0.15 | 0.89 |
1932 | 0.92 | 0.13 | 1.05 | 0.82 | 0.12 | 0.94 | 0.69 | 0.15 | 0.84 |
1933 | 0.96 | 0.09 | 1.05 | 0.82 | 0.11 | 0.93 | 0.69 | 013 | 0.82 |
1934 | 0.93 | 0.11 | 1.04 | 0.73 | 0.10 | 0.83 | 0.64 | 0.13 | 0.77 |
1935 | 0.72 | 0.14 | 0.86 | 0.68 | 0.09 | 0.77 | 0 61 | 0.11 | 0.72 |
1936 | 0.58 | 0.13 | 0.71 | 0.69 | 0.09 | 0.78 | 0.58 | 0.11 | 0.69 |
1937 | 0.89 | 0.16 | 1.05 | 0.70 | 009 | 0.79 | 0.58 | 0.11 | 0.69 |