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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
City of Westminster 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS
| Face, Ear, Nasal and Throat Swabs (74) | Diphtheroid bacilli | 1 |
| Haemolytic Streptococci | 10 | |
| Staphylococci | 15 | |
| Faeces (271) Rectal Swab (1) | Shigella sonnei | 62 |
| Shigella Flexneri | 2 | |
| Salmonella Newport | 6 | |
| Salmonella Typhimurium | 1 | |
| Trichomonas hominis | 1 | |
| Tuberculosis (97) | Positive | 2 |
| Negative | 95 |
During the year new arrangements were made by the Westminster
Chest Clinic for the examination of sputum from patients attending the
clinic. The number of specimens examined under the new arrangement
is not available, and the tuberculosis figures given above relate only to
the period 1st January-27th August, 1958.
TUBERCULOSIS
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 year | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1 to 5 years | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 to 15 years | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 15 to 25 years | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 25 to 45 years | 49 | 24 | — | 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 45 to 65 years | 62 | 11 | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| 65 to 75 years | 12 | 1 | 3 | — | 4 | — | 1 | — |
| 75 and over | 3 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| 139 | 48 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | — | |
| New Cases | ||||||||
| Source of Information | Pulmonary | Non-Pidmonary | ||||||
| M. | F. | M | F. | |||||
| Primary notifications | 93 | 34 | 4 | 3 | ||||
| Transfers from other areas | 41 | 14 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Non-notified deaths | 5 | — | — | 1 | ||||
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