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Southwark 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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-13TUBERCULOSIS
Including inward transfers, there were 47 fewer new cases of
Tuberculosis than last year; 43 pulmonary and 4 non-pulmonary.
Final figures at the end of the year, compared with the end of 1960, showed a decrease of 26 pulmonary cases and an increase of 5 non-pulmonary.
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary (all forms) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases at end of 1960 | 1,548 | 168 | |||||||||||
| New cases 1961 | 82 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Inward transfers 1961 | 62 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Less removals from Register | 170 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Cases at end of 1961 | 1,522 | 173 | |||||||||||
| 2- | 4- | 5- | 25- | 45- | 65- | ||||||||
| Primary | M | 1 | 6 | 19 | 27 | 10 | 63 | ||||||
| notifications | F | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | |||
| *New cases other than by formal | M | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| notification | F | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 23 | 30 | 12 | 82 | ||||
| Primary | M | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
| notifications | F | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| New cases other than by formal | M | - | |||||||||||
| notification | F | - | |||||||||||
| Totals | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | 7 | ||||||
*Local and inward transferable Death Returns and posthumous notifications.
* Include meninges and Central Nervous System. (Nil)