[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough. page 29

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Greenwich 1960

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Greenwich 1960

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Table: Greenwich deaths from tuberculosis for the previous ten years are given, with their appropriate rates, in the following table:

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Table: Comparing the current year s figures with those of the previous 5 years, the sites of the affected parts were: —

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Table: Greenwich deaths from tuberculosis for the previous ten years are given, with their appropriate rates, in the following table:

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Table: Comparing the current year s figures with those of the previous 5 years, the sites of the affected parts were: —

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough.

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Although in Greenwich the numbers are small and therefore
liable to wide fluctuation, they do reflect the national trend, for in
1960 the rate for England and Wales in respect of all forms of
tuberculosis was 75 per million population compared with a figure
of 85 for 1959.

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Greenwich deaths from tuberculosis for the previous ten years are given, with their appropriate rates, in the following table:

Year	No. of Deaths		Rate
1950	44		0.49
1951	35		0.39
1952	32		0.35
1953	18		0.19
1954	15		0.16
1955	8		0.08
1956	13		0.14
1957	8		0.09
1958	7		0.07
1959	14		0.15
10-year average		19	0.21
1960		4	0.04

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Tuberculosis of the Respiratory System was responsible for
all of the deaths in this category, not one death being attributed
to the remaining forms of tuberculosis.
At 0.04, the Pulmonary Tuberculosis rate was 0.10 lower than
that returned for last year.
Cancer.—In Greenwich, cancer was responsible for a total of
209 deaths giving a rate of 2.37 per thousand population compared
with figures of 172 and 1.93 respectively for the previous year. It
accounted for 22.5% of all registered deaths, a percentage over
five times that returned for 1901, viz. 4.2%, and indicates that
approximately one in every four deaths resulted from cancer of
one form or another.

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Comparing the current year s figures with those of the previous 5 years, the sites of the affected parts were: —

Cancer of Stomach

„ „ Lung, Bronchus

„ „ Breast

„ „ Uterus

„ „ all Other Sites