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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 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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There were 18 tuberculosis deaths (16 pulmonary and 2 non-pulmonary) during 1965.
The death rate of all forms of tuberculosis was 0 07 per 1,000 of the population, as
against the national rate of 0.05.
Islington Chest Clinic, Whittington Hospital
St. Pancras Chest Clinic, Margaret Street, St. Marylebone
Finsbury Chest Clinic, Health-Centre, Pine Street, E.C.I
Mass X/Ray Unit of the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board
32 Drayton Park, N. 5
The Borough is well and conveniently served by the above centres to which patients may be referred, or where persons may attend for examination.
Cases on Chest Clinic Registers
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults | Children | AduIts | Children | AduIts | Chi1dren | |||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | V | M | F | M | F | |
| - | ||||||||||||
Tuberculosis in immigrants - year ended 31st December, 1965
| COUNTRY where | Number of advice* | Number of first † | Number of pulmonary |
| passport was | notes received | successful visits | tuberculosis noti |
| issued, as stated | during the year | paid during the | fications subsequently |
| by Port Health | from ports and | year | received relating to |
| Authority | airports relating to | immigrants who arrived | |
| arrival of immigrants | during the year | ||
| Commonwealth Countries | |||
| Carribean | 278 | 222 | |
| India | 108 | 67 | |
| Pakistan | 71 | 51 | 1 |
| Other Asian | 27 | 12 | |
| African | 178 | 152 | |
| Other | 47 | 33 | |
| Non-Commonwealth Countries | |||
| European | 182 | 115 | |
| Other | 11 | 5 | |
| TOTAL | 902 | 657 | 1 |
* Advice of arrival of immigrant
† First successful visit means the first time the local health authority officer established
contact with the immigrant.
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