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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

Southwark 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: DEATHS FROM PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.TABLE 35.Shewing the number of Patients who died in their own homes and the number who died away fromhome in Hospitals or other Institutions, 1937.

DEATHS FROM PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.

TABLE 35.

Shewing the number of Patients who died in their own homes and the number who died away from

home in Hospitals or other Institutions, 1937.

0-]-2-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-All Ages.
Males.Females.Total.
Number of patients who died at home————974282—161632
Number of patients who died iu hospitals, etc.————91517131713—592584
————182221152515—7541116

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Of the total number of deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis 70.0 per cent. occurred in hospitals or other
institutions.