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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
Hammersmith 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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male, living in hostel accommodation, or alone in one or two rooms, who persistently
refuses medical attention. Immigrants are also blamed and certainly the analysis
of British born and other ethnic groups carried out in the Static Centre of the N.W.
Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board Mass Radiography service at Islington
during 1962, tends to confirm this opinion, as the non-British born contingent
formed only 25% of those examined but yielded approximately 42% of active
tuberculosis. The highest incidence rate was amongst Irishmen at the rate of 18 per
1,000 examined.
Summary of Notifications during the period from 1st January, 1963, to the 31st December, 1963
| Age Periods | Formal Notifications | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Primary Notifications of new cases of tuberculosis | ||||||||||||||
| 0— | 1— | 2— | 5— | 10— | 15— | 20— | 25— | 35— | 45— | 55— | 65— | 75 + | Total (all ages) | |
| Respiratory, Males | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 36 |
| Respiratory, Females | — | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | — | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 23 |
| Non-Respiratory, Males | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | 6 |
| Non-Respiratory, Females | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | 8 |
CASES NOTIFIED AND DEATHS—PAST TWENTY YEARS
| Year | No. of Cases notified | No. of Deaths | No. of Cases on Register of Notifications | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | |||
| 1944 | 192 | 22 | 214 | 93 | 1,184 |
| 1945 | 207 | 23 | 230 | 93 | 1,282 |
| 1946 | 188 | 23 | 211 | 85 | 1,487 |
| 1947 | 189 | 21 | 210 | 90 | 1,517 |
| 1948 | 167 | 20 | 187 | 76 | 1,599 |
| 1949 | 193 | 14 | 207 | 51 | 1,674 |
| 1950 | 166 | 21 | 187 | 39 | 1,779 |
| 1951 | 193 | 15 | 208 | 44 | 1,852 |
| 1952 | 180 | 14 | 194 | 43 | 1,494 |
| 1953 | 198 | 17 | 215 | 33 | 1,595 |
| 1954 | 167 | 13 | 180 | 21 | 1,495 |
| 1955 | 135 | 15 | 150 | 16 | 1,510 |
| 1956 | 156 | 9 | 165 | 17 | 1,536 |
| 1957 | 126 | 16 | 142 | 9 | 1,517 |
| 1958 | 123 | 5 | 128 | 15 | 1,537 |
| 1959 | 135 | 8 | 143 | 8 | 1,581 |
| 1960 | 98 | 13 | 111 | 7 | 1,528 |
| 1961 | 87 | 15 | 102 | 5 | 1,456 |
| 1962 | 67 | 11 | 78 | 9 | 1,429 |
| 1963 | 59 | 14 | 73 | 10 | 1,379 |
Average number of cases notified for the 10 years 1944/1953 (inclusive)—206.3.
Average number of cases notified for the 10 years 1954/1963 (inclusive)—127.2.
Average number of deaths for the 10 years 1944/1953 (inclusive)—64.7.
Average number of deaths for the 10 years 1954/1963 (inclusive)—11.7.