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Stoke Newington 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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TUBERCULOSIS
There were notified 41 cases of pulmonary, and 5 cases of nonpulmonary
Tuberculosis, with 38 deaths as set forth by ages in the
accompanying table. In 1936 there were notified 60 pulmonary
cases and 7 non-pulmonary cases.
During 1937, as in the previous year, there was thus a death
rate of 0.70 from Pulmonary Tuberculosis and 0.75 for all forms
of Tuberculosis per 1,000 of population living, as compared with
0.68 and 0.78 respectively for the year 1935.
Tuberculosis: New Cases and Deaths during 1937
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0-1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1-5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5-15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 15-25 | 7 | 4 | 1 | — | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 25-35 | 9 | 5 | — | — | 5 | 1 | — | — |
| 35-45 | 4 | — | 1 | — | 5 | 3 | — | — |
| 45-55 | 3 | — | — | — | 8 | — | — | — |
| 55-65 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 4 | — | — | — |
| 65 and upwards | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 4 | - | — | — |
| Totals | 30 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
Total Number of Tuberculous Persons Living in the
Borough.—A live register continually changing from additional
notifications, transfers into and out of the district and deaths is
maintained by the Medical Officer of Health. The known tuberculous
population decreased from 280 to 249 during the year.
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