London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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TUBERCULOSIS
A decrease in the number of cases notified continues. The following graph, in illustrating
this, is a tribute to all those concerned in the eradication of the disease which was
at one time justly called "The Captain of the Men of Death".
PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
1950 to 1967
(CASES NOTIFIED PER 100,000 POPULATION WITH CENTRED TREND)
56