London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Paddington 1914
Report on the vital statistics and the work of the Public Health Department for the years 1914-18 (inclusive)
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TUBERCULOSIS.
TABLE 13. Non-Tubercular Deaths among the (notified) Tuberculous. Intervals between Notification and Death.
| Year of Death. | Totals. | Year of Notfication. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | ||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | ||||||||||||
| 1914 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | |||||
| 1915 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||
| 1917 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| 1918 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 16 | |
| Totals. | 95 | 1 | 2 2 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 16 | |
| Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis.* | ||||||||||||
| 1914 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 1915 | 8 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1916 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 1917 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 1918 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Totals. | 20 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 3 | |||||
*Not notified before 1913.
TABLE 14.
| Certified Cause of Death. | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ages at Death. | All Ages. | Ages at Death. | All Ages. | |||||||||||||
| 0- | 5- | 15- | 25- | 45- | 65- | M. | F. | 0- | 5- | 15- | 25- | 45- | 65- | M | F. | |
| Enteric Fever | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Measles | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 3 | 1 | o | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Epid. Influenza | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Dther Septic Dis | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Cancer | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Diseases of Brain. | i | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| „ „ Heart & Blood Vessels | 5 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 9 | 13 | ||||||||||
| Bronchitis | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | f. | 1 | ... | i | ||||||
| Dther Respiratory Dis. | I | l | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ... | ||||||
| Diseases of Digestive Orgs. | 1 | 1 | 3 | ... | ... | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| „ „ Urinary „ | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | "3 | |||||||||||
| Premature Birth | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Atrophy, Debility | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Did Age | i | 1 | ... | |||||||||||||
| Suicide | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Accident | 1 | 1 | 1 | i | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| Totals | 8 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 40 | 13 | 49 | 40 | 15 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 4 | |||
Notes:— Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Died in Institutions ... 49
Inquests held ... ... 6
P.M. examinations ... 8
Pulmonary T. as " secondary " cause
associated with—
Epid. Influenza ... 2
Enteric Fever i
Cancer ... ... ... 1
Disease of Heart ... 1
Miliary T. as "secondary" cause
associated with—
Whooping Cough ... 1
Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Died in Institutions ... 12
Inquests held ... ... 2
P.M. examinations ... 2
Tuberculosis (not defined) as
" secondary " cause associated
with —
Measles 1
Accident 1
d 2