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Wimbledon 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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TUBERCULOSIS - 1941.
| AGE GROUPS | NEW CASES | DEATHS | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Notifications (Form A) | New cases discovered otherwise than by notification | i Total New Cases | ||||||||||||||
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonar 5 | Non-Pulmona y | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Hilmonary | |||||||||
| Males | Jtemales | Moles | Females | Males | Females | Males | Females | Males | Females | Males | Females | Males | Females | Ma les | Females | |
| Under 1 year | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 1-5 years | - | - | - 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 5 -10 ,, | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 10-15 ,, | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| 15-20 ,, | 6 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 7 | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| 20-25 ,, | 4 | 4 | - | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | - | 6 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | |
| 25-35 ,, | 10 | 7 | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 11 | - | 2 | 2 | 6 | - | - |
| 35-45 ,, | 4 | 2 | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 7 | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| 45-55 ,, | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | |
| 55-65 ,, | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| 65 and over | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 36 | 22. | 1 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 35 | 36 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 48 | 9 | 23 | 3 | 71 | 12 | 29 | 3 | |||||||||
| 57 | 26 | 83 | 32 | |||||||||||||
TTJB-JRCULOCIG.
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Eighty-throe eases of tuberculosis wcro notified. This figure
shows an increase of sixteen on the number for the previous year.
Tho deaths from tuberculosis wore six more than in 1940, the
total figure being thirty-two.
Twenty-nine of these were duo to pulmonary tuberculosis.
During 1941, fifty-nine Wimbledon patients were admitted to
sanatoria or hospitals.