[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough] page 65

Lewisham 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]

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Summary of statistics as to tuberculosis for the last ten years

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Table 41

Year	Population	New cases notified (all forms) (excluding inward transfers)	Notif. rate per thousand pop.	Deaths		Death rate from resp. tuberculosis per thousand pop.
Year	Population	New cases notified (all forms) (excluding inward transfers)	Notif. rate per thousand pop.	All forms	Respiratory	Lewisham	County of London
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
1953	225,800	341	1.51	48	44	0.19	0.21
1954	224,200	256	1.14	38	36	0.16	0.18
1955	223,400	271	1.21	26	22	0.10	0.16
1956	222,100	212	0.95	29	29	0.13	0.13

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General comments on tuberculosis are made in the introduction
of this report.

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Tuberculosis — environmental conditions

Case papers of patients attending the Lewisham Chest Clinic in 1956 have been analysed in 250 cases with the following results:—

	Cases	%*
Males	129	52
Females	121	48
Social classification:—
Class I	3	1
Class II	15	7
Class III	154	68
Class IV	32	14
Class V	22	10
Not classifiable	24	—
Rooms occupied:—
2 or more rooms per person	40	16
1—2 rooms per person	134	54
Less than 1 room per person	73	30
No information	3	—
Accommodation:—
Separate bed	113	45
Separate bedroom	78	31
Condition of premises occupied:
Good	165	67
Fair	75	31
Poor	4	2
No information	6	—
*Excluding cases not classified