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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
West Ham 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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The following table sets out the number of cases of Tuberculosis and the number of deaths during the year at certain age periods.
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0-1 | 1 | ... | 6 | 3 | ... | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| 1-4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 5-9 | 16 | 11 | 16 | 13 | 1 | ... | 4 | 2 |
| 10-14 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 16-19 | 33 | 44 | 9 | 6 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 3 |
| 20-24 | 35 | 46 | 11 | 3 | 23 | 20 | 2 | 2 |
| 26-34 | 64 | 43 | 9 | 4 | 32 | 27 | 4 | ... |
| 36-44 | 48 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 30 | 12 | ... | ... |
| 46-54 | 39 | 16 | 2 | ... | 30 | 8 | 2 | ... |
| 66-64 | 24 | 12 | ... | ... | 23 | 8 | ... | ... |
| 65 and upwards | 7 | 3 | 1 | ... | 2 | 3 | ... | ... |
| Totals | 279 | 214 | 80 | 46 | 157 | 97 | 30 | 12 |
Included in the above new cases are 16 pulmonary males, 12
pulmonary females, and 14 non-pulmonary males, and 12 nonpulmonary
females, which were unnotified, but were discovered
from the returns of the Registrar of Births and Deaths, showing
that 18 per cent. of the deaths registered as due to Tuberculosis
had not been notified during life.
The following table sets out the percentage of deaths from tuberculosis (not notified during life) for the years 1924—1931, inclusive:—
| 1924 | 10.5 | 1928 | 7.1 |
| 1925 | 11.2 | 1929 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 12.8 | 1930 | 13.0 |
| 1927 | 12.03 | 1931 | 18.0 |
In this connection many deaths notified as having been due to
Tuberculosis are frequently so notified because the case had at
some time or other suffered from this complaint, the actual cause
of death often being due to some intercurrent disease.
The total number of fresh cases of Tuberculosis coming to
my knowledge was 619, of which 493 were pulmonary cases. The
deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis numbered 296, giving a
death rate of 0.99 per 1,000.
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