London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Tower Hamlets 1972
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]
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| New Cases and Deaths; Primary notifications of 123 pulmonary and 20 non-pulmonary | |||||||||||||||
| cases were received; 10 other cases came to light via death returns from Registrars. | |||||||||||||||
| Pulmonary tuberculosis (including late effects) accounted | |||||||||||||||
| for 16 deaths, there being 2 deaths from non-pulmonary tuberculosis. | |||||||||||||||
| Age distribution of new cases and deaths is as follows;- | |||||||||||||||
| -1 | 1- | 2- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 55- | 75- | Total (all ages) | ||
| (a) New Cases | |||||||||||||||
| Pulmonary | M | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 12 | 18 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 94 |
| F | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | - | 29 | |
| Non-Pulmonary | M | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 10 |
| F | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | ¡ | 1 | 10 | |
| (b) Deaths | |||||||||||||||
| Pulmonary | M | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| F | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| Non-Pulmonary | M | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ¡ | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
| F | - | ||||||||||||||
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Males | Females | Cases | |
| No. Cases notified during 1972 | 94 | 29 | 10 | 10 | 143 |
| Other cases added to register | 20 | 3 | 1 | 24 | |
| No. cases removed from register | 70 | 39 | 3 | 3 | 115 |
| Remaining on register | |||||
| at 31st December | 589 | 328 | 35 | 46 | 998 |
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