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Lewisham 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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MEASLES
The number of cases was 1,787, which was very low considering that the year was
one which is normally considered to be a year for the normal biennial heavy occurence
of the disease.
DYSENTERY
The number of cases, 137, was more than in the previous two years.
WHOOPING COUGH
The year produced 32 cases, which was the lowest recorded. It is to be hoped that
this illness will shortly become as rare as the more serious diseases have become
in this century.
| Age periods | New cases notified Non- | Totals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory | Respiratory | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0– | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1– | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2– | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – |
| 5– | – | 2 | – | 2 | – | 4 |
| 10– | 1 | 4 | – | – | 1 | 4 |
| 15– | 1 | 2 | – | – | 1 | 2 |
| 20– | 3 | 6 | – | – | 3 | 6 |
| 25– | 9 | 6 | 5 | – | 14 | 6 |
| 35– | 10 | 2 | – | – | 10 | 2 |
| 45– | 14 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 6 |
| 55– | 12 | 2 | – | – | 12 | 2 |
| 65– | 7 | 3 | 1 | – | 8 | 3 |
| 75+ | 5 | 1 | – | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| TOTALS | 62 | 32 | 7 | 6 | 70 | 37 |
CHEST CLINIC, LEWISHAM
I am indebted to Dr. M. Farquharson for the following report concerning the Chest
Clinic at Blagdon Road of which she is the consultant physician:—
This year the number of new cases of tuberculosis seen at the Lewisham Chest
Clinic has been 50. The figure comprises 28 men, 17 women and 5 children. The
total tuberculosis register has been reduced by 185 to 1,185. B.C.G. was given to
243 infants and children. Our three chest clinic visitors carried out 3,690 visits.
The total Clinic attendances (excluding after care) were 19,321. Over 6,000 patients
were sent for chest x-ray by their general practitioners, and new patients attending
for clinical examination numbered 1,869.
This year we have again found over 100 new cases of cancer of the lung. There
has again been an increase in the number of patients presenting with asthma and
chronic bronchitis; the Clinic is taking part in the asthma investigation being carried
out by the South East Metropolitan Thoracic Society.
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