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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
Tottenham 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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6
PART I
CONTROL OF DISEASE
After a record low number of notifications of infectious
disease - 819 in 1954, the number of notifications was up in 1955
to 2,373, This was to a gre at extent accounted for by an epidemic
of measles in the early months of the year.
Tuberculosis
The number of cases on the tuberculosis register on 31st
December, 1955 was 1,825 an increase of 115 on the previous year.
There were 144 new cases of tuberculosis notified during 1955
(126 pulmonary and 18 non-pulmonary) compared with 131 in 1954
(126 pulmonary and 5 non-pulmonary).
Distribution of New Tuberculosis Gases notified during 1955
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| _> | - | - | - | - | ||||
| -- | - | - | - | |||||
| - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| 2 | - | - | - | - | ||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| - | - | - | - | |||||
| - | - | - | - | |||||
| - | - | - | - | |||||
| - | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | |||||
| 1 | - | - | - | -- | ||||
| - | - | - | - | |||||
| 1 | - | - | - | - | ||||
| - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| - | - | |||||||
The following is an analysis of non-pulmonary tuberculosis
cases notified during 1955:-