London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lewisham 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
The age distribution of the New Cases notified and the Deaths from Tuberculosis are shown in the following table:-
| NEW CASES | DEATHS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non pulmonary | TOTALS | Pulmonary | Non pulmonary | TOTALS | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| Under 1 year | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 to 5 years | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 4 |
| 5 to 10 „ | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 16 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 to 15 „ | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 15 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 15 to 20 „ | 23 | 22 | 4 | 8 | 57 | 39 | 43 | 9 | 5 | 96 |
| 20 to 25 „ | 30 | 37 | 4 | 5 | 76 | |||||
| 25 to 35 „ | 29 | 38 | 3 | 8 | 78 | |||||
| 35 to 45 „ | 38 | 16 | 5 | 65 | ||||||
| 45 to 55 „ | 25 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 38 | 32 | 6 | - | 1 | 39 |
| 55 to 65 „ | 17 | 1 | - | 2 | 20 | |||||
| 65 & Upwards | 7 | 4 | - | 3 | 14 | 5 | 1 | - | 1 | 7 |
| TOTALS | 185 | 142 | 27 | 49 | 403 | 77 | 51 | 14 | 8 | 150 |
6.