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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
Wandsworth 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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TUBERCULOSIS
Notifications
The total number of new cases which came to the notice of
the Department during 1955 was 644 compared with 738 in 1954.
The sources of information regarding the 644 new cases were
as follows:
Primary notifications on Form A 327
Notifications from H.M. Forces 6
Unnotified at death 3
Transfers from other sanitary authorities 308
Total 644
Deaths
The number of deaths certified as due to various forms of tuberculosis
was 53.
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 year | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1-2 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| 2-5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 5-10 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | – |
| 10-15 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| 15-25 | 64 | 82 | 2 | 4 | _ | – | – | – |
| 25-45 | 149 | 144 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | – |
| 45-65 | 70 | 32 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 4 | – | 1 |
| 65 and upwards | 18 | 10 | 1 | – | 16 | 6 | – | – |
| Totals | 316 | 289 | 20 | 19 | 37 | 12 | 3 | 1 |