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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
Feltham 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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| Notified | — | 1 |
| Cases treated at home | — | 1 |
| Cases treated in hospital | — | — |
| Vision unimpaired | — | 1 |
| Total blindness | — | — |
| Death | — | — |
| New Cases | Deaths | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age Periods | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 yr. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1— 5 yrs. | — | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5—15 „ | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15—25 „ | 5 | 3 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — |
| 25—35 „ | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | — | —- |
| 35—45 „ | 5 | 2 | — | — | — | 6 | — | — |
| 45—65 „ | 4 | 1 | — | 2 | 4 | 2 | — | — |
| Over 65 „ | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — |
| Total | 21 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | — | — |
Tuberculosis
Notifications of new cases of tuberculosis have decreased,
the figures being 38 for 1951 and 66 for 1950,
deaths from this cause show an increase, the figure being 18
as compared with 11. It must be remembered that a
number of these new cases are mild ones which have been
detected at an early stage by the use of mass radiography.
The Mass X-ray unit of the North West Metropolitan
Regional Hospital Board visited the district at the Public
Health Committee's invitation in the Autumn. The visit
was extensively publicised and 4,623 people attended for
X-ray. Of this number 3,267 came in factory or organised
groups and 1,356 from the general public. As a result of
these X-rays, 150 persons were recalled for large films to be
taken, following which further investigations were required
in 35 cases.