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 Brentford and Chiswick]
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TABLE VII LABORATORY WORK
Nature of Specimen | Result | ||
---|---|---|---|
Positive | Negative | Total | |
Diphtheria- swabs | - | 20 | 20 |
Scarlet Fever - swabs | 9 | 14 | 23 |
Dysentery - faeces | 18 | 84 | 102 |
Typhoid - faeces | - | 10 | 10 |
Food Poisoning faeces | 6 | 13 | 19 |
Totals | 33 | 141 | 174 |
TABLE VIII TUBERCULOSIS - 1955
Age Groups | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | |||||
Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
Under 1 year | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
1-5 years | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
5-15” | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
15 - 25 ” | 8 | 14 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
25 - 35 " | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
35 - 45 " | 9 | 5 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
45 - 55 " | 9 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
55 - 65 " | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - |
65 years and over | 4 | 1 | - | - | 4 | - | — | — |
Totals | 49 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
Of the 7 recorded deaths, 6 were previously notified as cases of Tuberculosis,
1 had not been so notified. In addition, 3 patients already notified as
tuberculosis died from other causes,
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