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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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| Deaths From: | Neoplasm of Lung and Bronchus | Respiratory T uberculosis | All Causes |
|---|---|---|---|
The highest mortality rate from neoplasm of the lung and bronchus
occurred in the 45-64 age groups ; that of tuberculosis between the ages of
65 and 74.
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary (all forms) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases at end of 1955 | |||||||||||||
| New cases 1956 | |||||||||||||
| Inward transfers 1956 | |||||||||||||
| Less removals from Register | |||||||||||||
| Cases at end of 1956 | |||||||||||||
| Deaths were four less than in 1955—2 pulmonary and 2 non-pulmonary | |||||||||||||
| Total | |||||||||||||
| Pulmonary: | |||||||||||||
| Primary | |||||||||||||
| Notifications | F. | _ | |||||||||||
| *New cases other than | |||||||||||||
| by formal notification | |||||||||||||
| Totals 1956 | _ | ||||||||||||
| Non- Pulmonary | |||||||||||||
| †Primary | – | — | |||||||||||
| Notifications | _ | _ | |||||||||||
| †1New cases other than | |||||||||||||
| by formal notification | |||||||||||||
| Totals 1956 | – | – | – | – | - | ||||||||
* Local and inward transferable Death Returns and posthumous
notifications.
† Include meninges and Central Nervous System.
Primary notifications; I female, aged 10.