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Camberwell 1946
Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell annual (abridged) report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1946
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10.
TUBERCULOSIS
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1930.
NEW CASES during 1946. Four hundred and thirty-six fresh cases of
Tuberculosis came to the notice of the Dispensary during the year.
Three hundred and thirty-six of these cases were primary notification,
80 inward transfers, 3 posthumous notifications and 17 non-notified
deaths obtained from the local Registrars' and the Registrar-General's
returns.
The distribution of the primary cases, in age groups, distinguishing respiratory and non-respiratory forms is set out in the following table.
| Age periods | Fresh Cases | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory | Non-respiratory | Total. | |||
| M | F | M | F | ||
| 0 – 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| 1 – 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 |
| 5 – 15 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 35 |
| 15 – 45 | 120 | 99 | 4 | 6 | 229 |
| 45 – 65 | 36 | 14 | – | – | 50 |
| 65 – | 5 | 1 | – | – | 6 |
| Totals | 186 | 129 | 8 | 13 | 336 |
MORTALITY during 1946. There were 99 deaths from all forms of
Tuberculosis (after correction for inward and outward transfers)
equal to a death rate of O.6O per 1000 of population (0.93 per
1000 in 1945). Of these 89 were respiratory cases and 10 nonrespiratory
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
2
-
-
-
2
1 - 5
-
-
-
1
1
5 - 15
1
-
1
2
4
15 - 45
23
22
2
48
1
45 - 65
21
7
-
2
30
65 -
10
3
-
1
14
57
Totals
32
2
8
99