Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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Quarterly revision of tuberculosis register:—
Table 48
Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
M | F | M | F | |
Number of cases on register at December 31, 1950 | 1,502 | 1,138 | 233 | 317 |
Number of cases notified for first time | 149 | 117 | 14 | 19 |
Number of cases restored to register | 10 | 11 | - | - |
Number of cases added to register otherwise | 40 | 46 | 6 | 5 |
Number of cases removed from register | 401 | 323 | 42 | 81 |
Number of cases on register at December 31, 1951 | 1,300 | 989 | 211 | 260 |
Summary of Statistics as to Tuberculosis for the last ten years
Table 49
year | Population | No. of new cases notified (all forms) (excluding inward transfers) | Notif. rate per thousand pop. | Deaths | Death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis per thousand population | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All forms | Respiratory | |||||
1942 | 161,800 | 354 | 2.20 | 131 | 118 | 0.73 |
1943 | 168,530 | 403 | 2.40 | 150 | 128 | 0.76 |
1944 | 163,320 | 390 | 2.39 | 146 | 129 | 0.79 |
1945 | 171,280 | 371 | 2.17 | 138 | 122 | 0.71 |
1946 | 207,410 | 437 | 2.11 | 126 | 110 | 0.53 |
1947 | 221,170 | 426 | 1.93 | 134 | 121 | 0.55 |
1948 | 226,100 | 502 | 2.22 | 119 | 109 | 0.48 |
1949 | 227,700 | 371 | 1.63 | 107 | 92 | 0.40 |
1950 | 228,300 | 406 | 1.78 | 72 | 66 | 0.29 |
1951 | 227,200 | 299 | 1.32 | 68 | 60 | 0.26 |
Note:—The 1951 death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis for the County
of London was 0.34.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930. Environmental
investigations
Investigations are made under the above regulations into the
home conditions of persons notified as suffering from tuberculosis. This
work includes not only visits in respect of primary notifications, i.e., the
first notification that a person is suffering from tuberculosis, but
applies also to persons diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis in some
other district who subsequently move into Lewisham.
The work is carried out by the sanitary inspectors and infectious
disease visitors. The primary object of this visiting is to ascertain
under what housing conditions the patient and his contacts are living