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 5O
Pulmonary | Nonpulmonary | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
M | F | M | F | |
On register at December 31, 1951 | 1,300 | 989 | 211 | 260 |
Notified for first time | 153 | 112 | 15 | 27 |
Restored to register | 10 | 16 | 2 | 2 |
Added to register otherwise | 68 | 56 | 2 | 8 |
Removed from register | 197 | 159 | 21 | 24 |
On register at December 31, 1952 | 1,334 | 1,014 | 209 | 273 |
Summary of Statistics as to Tuberculosis for the last ten years
Table 51
Year | Population | New cases notified (all forms) (excluding inward transfers) | Notif. rate per thousand pop. | Deaths | Death rate from resp. tuberculosis per thousand pop. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All forms | Respiratory | Lewisham | County of London | ||||
1943 | 168,530 | 403 | 2.40 | 150 | 128 | 0.76 | 0.79 |
1944 | 163,320 | 390 | 2.39 | 146 | 129 | 0.79 | 0.75 |
1945 | 171,280 | 371 | 2.17 | 138 | 122 | 0.71 | 0.70 |
1946 | 207,410 | 437 | 2.11 | 126 | 110 | 0.53 | 0.59 |
1947 | 221,170 | 426 | 1.93 | 134 | 121 | 0.55 | 0.60 |
1948 | 226,100 | 502 | 2.22 | 119 | 109 | 0.48 | 0.56 |
1949 | 227,700 | 371 | 1.63 | 107 | 92 | 0.40 | 0.47 |
1950 | 228,300 | 406 | 1.78 | 72 | 66 | 0.29 | 0.36 |
1951 | 227,200 | 299 | 1.32 | 68 | 60 | 0.26 | 0.34 |
1952 | 227,100 | 307 | 1.35 | 42 | 35 | 0.15 | 0.28 |
Environmental investigations
Investigations were made under the 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.
If any conditions are found which call for action by the health
department the necessary measures are taken by the district sanitary
inspector or myself.