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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
Islington 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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| Ages | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory | N on-Respiratory | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| 5 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | 46 | 46 | 1 | 8 | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | 58 | 39 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 1 | — | — |
| 35 | 43 | 26 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | — |
| 45 | 37 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 55 | 26 | 5 | — | — | 11 | 1 | — | — |
| 65 and upwards | 36 | 13 | — | 3 | 8 | 3 | — | — |
| Total for all ages | 262 | 157 | 17 | 27 | 26 | 8 | 1 | — |
| 463 | 35 | |||||||
Rates per 1,000 population—
New cases—pulmonary 1.84
non'pulmonary 0.19
Deaths— pulmonary 0.15
non-pulmonary 0.004
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1952
Although information in regard to the coming and going of tuberculous patients
under these Regulations is not as complete as it was under the Tuberculosis Regula—
tions, 1930, every effort is made to confirm the correctness of the Register still
maintained in the Department. The total number of cases on the Register of the
Department as at 31st December, 1956 was :—
Pulmonary-— Males 1,506
Females 1,234
Non-Pulmonary—Males 144
Females 164
3,048
The corresponding figures for previous years are :—
1948 2,401
1949 2,490
1950 2,368
1951 2,404
1952 2,575
1953 2,802
1954 2,922
1955 2,945
| Number of definite cases of tuber— culosis on Chest Clinic Register as at 31st December, 1956 | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults | Children | Adults | Children | Adults | Children | |||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 1375 | 1041 | 109 | 88 | 52 | 85 | 9 | 13 | 1427 | 1126 | 118 | 101 | |
| Grand Total 2,772 | ||||||||||||