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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

Southwark 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: DEATHS FROM PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.TABLE 46.Shewing the number of Patients who died in their own homes and the number who died away fromhome in Hospitals or other Institutions, 1933.

DEATHS FROM PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.

TABLE 46.

Shewing the number of Patients who died in their own homes and the number who died away from

home in Hospitals or other Institutions, 1933.

0-1-2-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-All Ages.
Males.Females.Total.
Number of patients who died at home19679107282149
Number of patients who died in hospitals, etc.---217232330208-9033123
-12262930393015-11854172
Of the total number of deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis 71.5 per cent. occurred in hospitals or other institutions.

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The mortality rate was 1.02 per 1,000, as against 0.9b per 1,000 in
1932.
The following tables give, in tabular form, the number of cases of
Tuberculosis on the Medical Officer's Register; the number of new cases
coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, and the number
of deaths from Tuberculosis for the period under review.
TABLE 48.
Notification Register.
Pulmonary.
Non-Pulmonary.
Total Cases.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Number of cases of Tuberculosis
remaining at the
31st December, 1933,
on the Registers of Notifications
kept by the
Medical Officer of Health
of the Metropolitan
Borough
760
449
1209
254
206
460
1669
Number of cases removed
from the Register(s)
during the year by reason
inter alia of:—
210
145
355
61
51
112
467
(1) Withdrawal of notification
79
68
147
27
23
50
197
(2) Recovery from the
disease
13
23
36
25
16
41
77
(3) Deaths
118
54
172
9
12
21
193