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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TUBERCULOSIS
There were fifteen fewer pulmonary Tuberculosis notifications
than in 1953, and five more non-pulmonary cases.
The deaths from Tuberculosis were the same total as in 1953.
Age Groups
0-
1-
5-
10-
15-
20-
25-
35-
45-
55-
65-
Total
Pulmonary:
Primary
Notifications
M.
3
2
2
-
1
3
13
16
16
17
11
84
F.
1
4
2
2
8
21
17
8
2
-
3
68
New cases
other than
by formal
notification
M.
-
_
1
2
1
6
11
12
6
4
5
48
F.
-
-
-
1
3
8
9
3
-
-
-
24
Totals 1954
4
6
5
5
13
38
50
39
24
21
19
224
1953
1
10
9
3
22
38
48
37
37
20
14
239
Non-Pulmonary
Primary
Notifications
M.
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
2
F.
-
1
-
2
-
2
3
2
-
-
1
11
New cases
other than
by formal
notificat ion
M.
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
1
F.
-
-
-
-
-
1
1
-
-
-
-
2
Totals 1954
-
1
1
2
-
4
4
2
-
1
1
16
1953
-
1
-
-
2
4
4
-
-
-
-
11
Pulmonary
Non-Pulmonary
Cases on Register, end of 1953 1,357 202
Notified cases, 1954 (including
transfers, posthumous and primary
notifications) 224 16
Cases removed from Register during
1954 197 33
Cases remaining at end of 1954 1,384 185