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Southwark 1938

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

Published
1939
Pages
155
Tables
108

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  • Page 7
    STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
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    Unfortunately, a considerable amount of unemployment exists in the Borough, and the official figures at the end of December were:—
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    VITAL STATISTICS.
    Total.M.F.
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    Death rate of infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births:—
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    POPULATION. The population of the several divisions of the Borough at each Census since 1861, and also the estimated population for 1937 and 1938 are as follows:—
    Newington.St. George's.St. Saviour's and Christchurch.
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    TABLE 1. Birth-rate for the last Ten Years for the Three Divisions of the Borough as formerly existed.
    Newington.St. George's.St. Saviour's and Christchurch.Whole Borough.
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    TABLE 2. Number of Births and Deaths belonging to each Ward, and the Infantile Mortality Rate, 1938.
    WARDBirths.Infantile Mortality.Deaths.
    Males.Females.Total.Males.Females.Total.
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    The principal localities in which the "outlying" deaths occurred are as follows:—
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    TABLE 3. Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1938.
    Causes of Death.Nett Deaths at the subjoined ages of "Residents" whether occurring within or without the District.
    All Ages.0.1.2.5.15.25.35.45.55.65.75.
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    TABLE 4. BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK. INFANT MORTALITY, 1938. Nett Deaths from stated causes at various ages under 1 Year of age.
    CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 week.J 1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 month.4 weeks and under 3 Months3 Months and under 66 Months and under 99 Months and under 12.Total Deaths under 1 Year.
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    TABLE 5. Death Rates for the last Ten Years for the Three Divisions of the Borough as formerly existed.
    Newington.St. George's.Christchurch and St. Saviour's.Whole Borough
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    The deaths under one year of age to 1,000 births for the last ten years were as follows:—
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    TABLE 7. Births and Deaths Registered in the Sub-Districts of the Borough in 1938.
    First Quarter.Second Quarter.
    Sub -Districts.Births.Deaths.Sub-Districts.Births.Deaths.
    Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.
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    TABLE 8. Showing the number of Deaths that occurred in Public Institutions in the Borough during the year 1938.
    Institution.In 1st Quarter.In 2nd Quarter.In 3rd Quarter.In 4th Quarter.During Year.
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    TABLE 9. VITAL STATISTICS OF SEPARATE LOCALITIES (1934-38).
    Year.St. Mary's Ward.St. Paul's Ward.St. Peter's Ward.St. John's Ward.Trinity Ward.
    Births Registered.Deaths at all ages.Deaths under 1 year.Births Registered.Deaths at all ages.Deaths under 1 year.Births Registered.Deaths at all ages.Deaths under 1 year.Births Registered.Deaths at all ages.Deaths under 1 year.Births Registered.Deaths at all ages.Deaths under 1 year.
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    TABLE 10. ZYMOTIC MORTALITY FOR THE SANITARY AREA, 1938. Showing the localities where the deaths occurred.
    Locality.Influenza.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Enteric Fever.Diarrhoea.
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    TABLE 11. Deaths in the Sanitary Area from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the various Wards for 1938.
    WARD OR DISTRICT.Influenza.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Enteric Fever.Diarrhoea.
  • Page 28
    A summary of the number of foster mothers and foster children in Southwark and other statistics in connection therewith is as follows:—
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    Number of Child Life Protection Visitors at the end of the year:—
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    SESSIONS. Health Services Department, Walworth Road—
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    Sutherland House, Sutherland Square—
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    New Maternity Centre, Villa Street—
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    Lady Margaret Church Parish Room, Chatham Street—
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    Ante-natal Clinics are also held at the following Centres:—
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    MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE CENTRES. Showing the Attendances at the Several Centres and Visits paid to the homes of Mothers and Children by Health Visitors. TABLE 12.
    Larcom Street (to 1st Oct.)Health Services Dept. (from 1st Oct.)Sutherland House.Villa Street.Chatham Street.Cross way.Lansdowne Place.Lambeth Road.Pocock Street.Borough Road.Roman Catholic.Guy's.Total.
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    HEALTH WORK. The number of visits made by the Health Visitors and other Officers of the Health Services Department in connection with Births, and other Health Work during 1938. TABLE 13.
    Original Visits.Re-Visits under 1.Visits to Children 1—5 years.Ante-Natal Visits.Post-Natal Visits.Attendances at Welfare Centres.Measles.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Puerperal Pyrexia.Visits to cases of Diarrhoea.Special Visits, etc.Tuberculosis Visits.Total.
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    TABLE 14. NOTIFIED BIRTHS. 1938.
    Where Born and by Whom Attended.Mothers ContinecNotifiec Births.Still-Births.Total Live Births.
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    TABLE 15. Vaccination Officers' Return respecting the Vaccination of Children whose Births were Registered in 1937.
    Number of theBe births duly entered in Columns 1,2,4 and 5 of the vaccination register (birth list sheets), viz.: —Number of these births which are not entered in (ha vaccination register, on account (as shown by report book), of
    Date .Registration sub-districts comprised in vaccination officers' district.Number of births returned in birth list sheets.Column 1, successfully vaccinated.Column 2. Insusceptible of vaccination.Column 4. Certificate of conscientious objection.Column 5, dead, unvac-cinated.Postponement by medical certificate.Removed to other districts and notified to vaccination officers of the districts.Removal to places unknown, or which cannot be reached, and cases not having been found.Cases remaining or temporarily unaccounted for.Total number of certificates of successful vaccination received during the calendar year 1938.
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    TABLE 16. Summary of Sanitary Works completed under the Public Health Act during the year 1938.
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    PROCEEDINGS TAKEN UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND OTHER ACTS.
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    In this connection, the following persons have been removed during the year under review:—
    Name.Age.Institution.
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    Certificates in regard to water supply have been granted in respect of the under-mentioned (new) houses during the year:—
    Premises.Certificates granted to.
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    "The Magnet" B.H., 64-68, Old Kent Road (1 house) H. V. Clogg, Ltd., 159-161, Hanbury Street, E.l.
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    TABLE 18. Factories. 1.—Inspections.
    Premises.Number of
    Inspections.Written Notices.Occupiers Prosecuted.
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    2.—Defects Found.
    Particulars.Number of Defects
    Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.In respect of which Prosecutions were instituted.
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    TABLE 19. 3.—Home Work.
    Nature of WorkOutworkers' Lists, Section 110.Number of Inspections of Outworkers' Premises.Outwork in Unwholesome Premises, S. 111.
    Lists received from Employers.Nos. of Addresses of Outworkers received from other Councils.Nos. of Addresses of Outworkers forwarded to other Councils.Prosecutions.Instances.Notices served.Prosecutions.
    February List.August List.Failing to keep or permit inspection of lists.Failing to send lists.
    Lists.OutworkersLists.Outworkers
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    TABLE 20. 4.—Registered Factories.
    Factories, etc., on the Register at the end of the year.Number.
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    5.—Other Matters.
    Class.Number.
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    The following defects were discovered, and 16 intimations and 2 statutory notices were served in order to obtain the abatement of the nuisances complained of:—
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    TABLE 21. RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION) ACT, 1919. Summary showing investigations and inspections made during the year 1938.
    Inspections:—
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    CLEANSING OF VERMINOUS ROOMS AND THEIR CONTENTS.
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    TABLE 22. Verminous Bedding, etc., Disinfested at the Council's Station during 1938.
    Articles.Disinfested.Destroyed.
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    COLLIER'S RENTS MORTUARY AND CORONER'S COURT.
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    ABATEMENT OF OVERCROWDING.
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    1 am happy to say that re-housing from Slum Clearance Areas is going on apace, and 436 families have been allocated accommodation on L.C.C. Estates, as follows: —
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    APPLICATIONS FOR HOUSING ACCOMMODATION ON MEDICAL GROUNDS. Of the numerous applications received, special recommendations on medical grounds have been made by me in the majority of cases, and I give below a list of the numbers of families re-housed, and the L.C.C. Estates upon which they have been accommodated: —
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    HOUSING CONSOLIDATED REGULATIONS, 1925 and 1932. Houses in the following localities were inspected and recorded under the above mentioned Regulations during the year:—
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    TABLE 23. HOUSING.
    1. Inspection of Dwelling Houses:—
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    TABLE 23.—continued.
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    TABLE 23. —continual
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    TABLE 24. Sanitary Works completed under the Housing Acts, during the year 1938.
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    The following are the premises and licensees:—
    Situation of Premises.Name of Licensee.
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    The following table shows the number of premises registered and the inspections made:—
    Premises.Registered.Inspections.
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    The following is a summary of the premises under inspection:—
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    The following facts are revealed by the record cards:—
    Reconstructed.Improved.Cleansed.Refrigerators.
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    The following facts are revealed by the record cards:—
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    CARCASES INSPECTED AND CONDEMNED.
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    ANALYSIS OF PORT SANITARY SAMPLES, 1938.
    Sample ofCondition of Can.Condition of Contents for Sample.Report.
    External.Internal.
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    Sample ofCondition of Can.Condition of Contents for Sample.Report.
    External.Internal.
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    Sample ofCondition of Can.Condition of Contents for Sample.Report.
    External.Internal.
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    Sample ofCondition of Can.Condition of Contents for Sample.Report.
    External.Internal.
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    Sample ofCondition of Can.Condition of Contents for Sample.Report.
    Externa].Internal.
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    Sample ofCondition of Can.Condition of Contents for Sample.Report.
    External.Internal.
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    Sample ofCondition of Can.Condition of Contents for Sample.Report.
    External.Internal.
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    TABLE 25. Showing the quantity of foodstuffs examined at the wharves, the amount found to be unsound the Notices served, and the method of disposal of the unsound portion.
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    Foodstuffs.Quantity and Weight examined.Weight found to be unsound.Surrendered by Owner.Seized by Inspector.Notices served.How unsound portion disposed of.
    Quantity.Weight.(a) Detention.(6) Release.
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    Foodstuffs.Quantity and Weight examined.Weight found to be unsound.Surrendered by Owner.Seized by Inspector.Notices served.How unsound portion disposed of.
    Quantity.Weight.(a) De-tention.(6) Release.
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    TABLE 26. Showing the quantity of Foodstuffs found unsound throughout the Borough during the year 1938 by the several Inspections.
    Foodstuffs.Quantity and Weight found UnsoundSurrendered by Owners. Seized by InspectorRemarks.
    Quantity.Weight.Quantity.Weight.Quantity.Weight.
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    Foodstuffs.Quantity and Weight found UnsoundSeized by Inspector. Surrendered by Owners.Remarks.
    Quantity.Weight.Quantity.Weight.Quantity.Weight.
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    TABLE 27. Inspections of flood at Wharves, Markets and other places where food is stored, and the action taken by the officials during the year 1938.
    INSPECTION OF WHARVES. Etc.FOOD EXAMINED, Etc.
    WARD or DISTRICT.Inspections of Wharves and Warehouses.Inspections of Markets.Inspections of Shops or Street Stalls.Slaughter Mouses.Parcels of Food Examined.Parcels of Food Stopped.Parcels of Food Released.Parcels of Food destroyed by consent of owner.Parcels of Food seized by Inspector.Parcels of Food condemned by Magistrate.Summonses taken out.
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    Milksellers.
    Wholesalers.Retailers.
    In Borough.Outsiders.In Borough.Outsiders.
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    MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) ORDERS, 1936 AND 1938. The total number of licences issued for the sale of Graded Milks were as follows:—
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    A further 18 samples were submitted for bacteriological examination as follows:—
    2nd Nov.3rd Nov.19th Dec.Total.
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    INSPECTIONS OF VARIOUS PREMISES. The following Inspections have been made during the year:—
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    NOXIOUS TRADES.
    Situation.Trade.Occupier.Inspections.Remarks.
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    The following is a list of Poisons sold:—
    Kind of Poison Sold.No. of Premises.Remarks.
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    SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS AND OTHER ACTS.
    Name and Address of Defendant.Sample.Offence or Result of Analysis.Result of Proceedings.
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    TABLE 28. Return of Official Samples for the Year ending 31st December, 1938, showing the number taken, and the percentage of adulterated Samples for the year. FORMAL SAMPLES.
    Article.Number of Samples taken.Adulterated.
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    Article.Number of Samples taken.Adulterated .
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    TABLE 29.
    Article.Number of samples.Adulterated.
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    Article.Number of samples.Adulterated
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    SMALLPOX. During the year under review no cases were notified. The number of cases notified during the last five years is as follows:—
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    The number of cases notified and the number of deaths during the last five years were as follows:—
    Notified.Deaths.
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    The number of deaths from Measles during the last five years will be found hereunder:—
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    ENTERIC FEVER. Three cases of Enteric Fever were notified during the year. The number of cases notified and the number of deaths during the last five years were as follows:—
    Notified.Deaths.
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    The number of cases notified and the number of deaths during the last live years were as follows:—
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    SCHICK CLINIC, 1938.
    Primary Schick Test.Schick Test after 3 months.
    Age Group.Reading of Test.Inoculation. *Reading of Test.
    Number Tested.Immune.Susceptible.Miscellaneous.1st without Primary S. Test.1st.2nd.3rd.4th.5th.Number Tested.Immune.Susceptible.Miscellaneous.
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    INFLUENZA. The deaths from this disease during the last five years were as follows:—
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    Deaths of infants under two years of age during the last five years were as follows:—
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    The number of fatal cases during the last five years will be found hereunder:—
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    OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM. Twenty-seven cases occurred during the year, as against 29 in 1937. An analysis of the cases will be found hereunder:—
    Notified.Cases treated.Vision unimpaired.Vision impaired.Total Blindness.Deaths.
    At home.Hospital.
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    TABLE 30. DEATHS FROM CANCER—1938.
    Site of Disease.Under 2525—35—45—55—65—75—Total.
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.
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    TABLE 31. NOTIFIABLE DISEASES (other than Tuberculosis) during the year 1938.
    Disease.0–1-6-10-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-Males.Females.TotalCases admitted to HospitalTotal Deaths
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    TABLE 32. Bedding, etc., disinfected and destroyed after the occurrence of Infectious Disease during the year 1938.
    Articles.No. Disinfected.No. Destroyed.
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    TABLE 33. PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1930. Summary of Notifications during the period from the 1st January, 1938, to the 31st December, 1938, in the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark.
    Age-periodsNotifications on Form A.
    Number of Primary Notifications.Total Notifications on Form A.
    0-11-55-1010-1515-2020-2525-3535-4545-5555-6565 and upw'rdsTotal Primary Notifi cations.
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    TABLE 34. SUPPLEMENTAL RETURN. New cases of Tuberculosis coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health or Chief (Administrative) Tuberculosis Officer during the period from the 1st January, 1938, to the 31st December, 1938, otherwise than by notification on Form A or Form B under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930.
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    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, 1938.
    0-1-2-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-All Ages.
    Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE 36. TUBERCULOSIS.
    Age Periods.New Cases.*Deaths.
    Pulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.Pulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.
  • Page 150
    The number of notified cases and deaths for the last five years is as follows:—
    Notified.Deaths.
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    TABLE 37. Notification Register.
    Pulmonabt.Non-Pulmonary.Total Cases.
    Males.Females.Total.Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE 38. The Locality of the Rooms Disinfected after the occurrence of Phthisis.
    No. 1.No. 2.No. 3.No. 4.No. 5.No. 6.No. 7.No. 8.No. 9.Total.
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    The following cases were recommended to the London County Council for Institutional treatment during the year:—
    Adults.Under 15 years.
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    TABLE 39. Return for the year 1938. (A) Return showing the work of the Dispensary (or Dispensaries).
    Diagnosis.pulmonary.Non-PulmonaryTotal.Grand Total.
    AdultsChildrenAdultsChildrenAdultsChildren
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.