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Southwark 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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-32TUBERCULOSIS
Including inward transfers, there were 22 fewer new cases of
Tuberculosis than last year; 20 pulmonary and 2 non-pulmonary.
Final figures at the end of the year, compared with the end of 1961, showed an increase of 20 pulmonary cases and of 4 non-pulmonary, due to fewer removals from the borough.
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary (all forms) | |
|---|---|---|
| Cases at end of 1961 | 1522 | 173 |
| New cases 1962 | 65 | 5 |
| Inward transfers 1962 | 45 | 1 |
| Less removals from Register | 90 | 2 |
| Cases at end of 1962 | 1542 | 177 |
| 0- | 1- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 25- | 45- | 65- | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | M | 1 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 43 | ||||||
| notifications | F | 1 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 19 | |||||||
| *New cases other than by formal | M | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| notification | F | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 1 | 1 | 10 | 24 | 19 | 10 | 65 | ||||||
| Primary | M | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| notifications | F | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| *New cases | |||||||||||||
| other than by formal notification | F | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
* Local and inward transferable Death returns and posthumous notifications.
† Include meninges and Central Nervous System. (Nil)