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Islington 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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19131]
More than half the patients were between the ages of 15 and 45, or
just at that time of life in which adolescence is ceasing and full maturity
is approaching, or has arrived, and when men and women are at their best.
There is no occasion to dwell further on these facts because they have been
discussed in several reports of the Medical Officer of Health.
The Table from which the above figures are taken is appended.
T able XC.
the periods of life at which tuberculosis attacked the persons notified during 1913
| Tubercular Diseases. | Sex. | cases notified in whole district. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages. | At Ages—Years. | ||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards | |||
| Phthisis (including Tuberculosis of Larynx.) | M. | 776 | 2 | 9 | 72 | 102 | 388 | 190 | 13 |
| f. | 527 | 1 | 7 | 54 | 105 | 252 | 9 | ||
| Tubercular Meningitis | M. | 13 | 1 | 10 | 2 | ||||
| f. | 14 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Tabes Mesenterica | M. | 17 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||
| f. | 15 | 2 | — | 6 | 3 | 1 | |||
| General Tubercolosis | M. | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| f. | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Other forms of Tubercolosis | M. | 174 | 1 | 29 | 89 | 23 | 25 | 6 | 1 |
| f. | 142 | 2 | 20 | 74 | 30 | 12 | 4 | — | |
| All Tubercular Diseases | M. | 982 | 7 | 57 | 167 | 126 | 414 | 197 | 14 |
| f. | 701 | 6 | 39 | 136 | 139 | 265 | 106 | 10 | |
| 1683 | 13 | 96 | 303 | 265 | 679 | 303 | 24 | ||
| Percentages at each life period to total cases | 100 | 0.8 | 57 | 18.0 | 15.8 | 40.3 | 18.0 | 1.4 | |