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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
Deptford 1927
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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The number of deaths for the year is 132 as compared with 104
for 1926.
192g 1927
P.T. deaths ... ... 91 119
Non P.T. deaths ... 13 13
Analysis of the notifications and deaths for the year according to
sex and age are given in the accompanying tables, following which is
a table showing deaths according to Wards.
Particulars of New Cases and of Deaths during the Year 1927.
| New Cases.* | Deaths. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age Periods. | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | ||||
| m | f | m | f | m | f | m | f | |
| 0 | _ | 1 | _ | 4 | _ | _ | _ | 2 |
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | - | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 4 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| 10 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — |
| 15 | 6 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | 13 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 12 | — | |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 7 | — | 1 |
| 35 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 12 | — | — |
| 45 | 30 | 4 | 1 | — | 12 | 2 | — | 1 |
| 55 | 14 | 2 | — | 3 | 14 | 3 | — | — |
| 65 and upwards | 4 | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Totals | 112 | 88 | 30 | 32 | 71 | 48 | 5 | 8 |
•Note—Including 36 cases which came to the knowledge of the Medical Officer
of Health otherwise than by notification.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Interval between Notification and Death in 1927.
| Not notified | 17 | ||
| Died before receipt of notification | 7 | ||
| Died within one week of notification | 6 | ||
| „ „ one week to one month | 2 | ||
| „ „ one month to three months | 9 | ||
| „ „ three months to six months | 12 | ||
| „ „ six months to one year | 14 | ||
| „ „ one to two years | 17 | ||
| „ „ two to three years | 13 | ||
| „ „ three to four years | 7 | ||
| „ „ four to five years | 7 | ||
| „ „ five to six years | 2 | ||
| „ „ six to seven years | 1 | ||
| „ „ seven years and upwards | 5 | ||
| 119 | |||