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Wimbledon 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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TUBERCULOSIS 1939.
| AGS GROUPS | NEW CASES | DEATHS | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Notification | new Cases discovered otherwise than by Notification | Total New Cases | ||||||||||||||
| Pulmonary | Non Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non Pulmonary. | |||||||||
| Males | Relates | Males | females | Males | Females | males | Females | Males | Females | males | females | Males | females | Males | females | |
| Under 1 year | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | –_ | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| 15 years | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| 5 -10 '' | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | l | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| 10-15 '' | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | _ | – | – | 1 | – |
| 15-20 '' | 3 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 20-25 '' | 2 | 8 | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | 4 | 9 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | |
| 25-35 '' | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | – | – | 11 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | – | – |
| 35-45 '' | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | – | 1 |
| 45-55 '' | 7 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | – |
| 55-65 '' | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – |
| 65 and over | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| 27 | 27 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 4 | – | – | 32 | 31 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 3 | 3 | |
| Totals | 54 | 10 | 9 | – | 63 | 10 | 26 | 6 | ||||||||
| 64 | 9 | 73 | 32 | |||||||||||||
| 73 | ||||||||||||||||
TUBERCULOSIS.
Seventy-three cases of tuberculosis were notified. This
figure shows an increase of twenty-two on the number for the
previous year.
The deaths from tuberculosis were one more than in 1938, the
total figure being thirty-two.
Twenty-six of these were due to pulmonary tuberculosis.
During 1339, forty-nine Wimbledon patients were admitted
to sanatoria or hospitals.