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Camberwell 1944
Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell annual (abridged) report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1944
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7.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930.
NEW CASES during 1944. 354 fresh cases of Tuberculosis came to
the notice of the Dispensary during the year. 295 of these cases
were primary notifications, 40 inward transfers, 6 posthumous
notifications and 13 non-notified deaths obtained from the local
Registrar's returns. The distribution of these cases in age groups
distinguishing pulmonary and non-pulmonary forms is set out in the
following table.
| Age periods | Fresh Cases. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory | Non Respiratory | Total. | |||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| 0-1 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1 – 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 5 – 15 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 31 |
| 15-45 | 108 | 96 | 9 | 13 | 226 |
| 45-65 | 48 | 16 | 1 | – | 65 |
| 65- | 13 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 22 |
| Total | 181 | 125 | 24 | 24 | 354 |
MORTALITY during 1944. There were 109 deaths from all forms of
tuberculosis after correction for Inward and Outward Transfers,
equal to a death rate of 0.84 per 1,000 of population (1.04 per
1,000 in 1943). Of these, 96 were pulmonary cases and 13 nonpulmonary
cases. The age groups in which these deaths occurred
appear in the sub-joined table.
| Age periods | Deaths | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory | Non Respiratory | Total. | |||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| 0-1 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1 – 5 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 – 15 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 15-45 | 25 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 48 |
| 45-65 | 32 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 42 |
| 65- | 13 | 2 | – | – | 15 |
| Total | 70 | 26 | 5 | 8 | 109 |