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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
Lewisham 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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57
Tuberculosis
The numbers of new cases notified during the year 1949, and
deaths, together with comparative figures for the previous year, were
as follows :—
Table 39
| New cases notified † | Deaths | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 1949 | 1948 | 1949 | |
| Pulmonary | 448 | 333 | 109 | 92 |
| Non-pulmonary | 54 | 38 | 10 | 15 |
| Totals | 502 | 371 | 119 | 107 |
† excluding inward transfers from other areas
The age distribution of the new cases of tuberculosis notified and
the deaths from tuberculosis during the year are shewn in the following
table :—
Table 40
| Age periods | New coses notified | Deaths | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Totals | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Totals | |||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0- | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | 1 | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | 1 |
| 1- | 5 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 12 | _ | _ | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |
| 5- | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | _ | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 10- | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | ||||||
| 15- | 78 | 73 | 1 | _ | 79 | 73 | 16 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 25 |
| 20- | 32 | 33 | 1 | 3 | 33 | 36 | ||||||
| 25- | 40 | 37 | 3 | 1 | 43 | 38 | ||||||
| 35- | 20 | 20 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 25 | ||||||
| 45- | 78 | 8 | 4 | _ | 37 | 8 | 34 | 11 | 1 | - | 35 | 11 |
| 55- | 23 | 3 | _ | 23 | 3 | |||||||
| 65- | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 8 | - | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| Totals | 191 | 142 | 18 | 20 | 209 | 162 | 58 | 34 | 7 | 8 | 65 | 42 |