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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 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TUBERCULOSIS
There was a very slight increase in Tuberculosis notifications during 1952, and although the number of cases removed from the Register was fewer, the deaths during the year showed some increase.
| Age Groups | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0- | 1- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | Total | ||
| Pulmonary: | |||||||||||||
| Primary Notification | M. | - | 6 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 20 | 14 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 99 |
| F. | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 12 | 22 | 9 | 5 | - | - | 66 | |
| New cases other than by formal notification | M. | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 37 | ||
| F. | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 9 | 12 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 27 | |
| Totals 1951 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 36 | 46 | 32 | 35 | 26 | 14 | 223 | |
| 1952 | - | 11 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 31 | 64 | 29 | 33 | 15 | 14 | 229 | |
| Non-Pulmonary | |||||||||||||
| Primary Notification | M. | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | 9 |
| F. | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 11 | |
| New cases other than by formal notification | M. | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| F. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | |
| Totals 1951 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 20 | |
| 1952 | - | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | - | 2 | 25 | |
Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary
Cases on Register, end of 1951 1,202 191
Notified oases, 1952 (inoluding
transfers, posthumous and primary
notifications) 229 25
Cases removed from Register during
1952 165 13
Cases remaining at end of 1952 1,266 203