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St Pancras 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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68
SECTION 8.
Tuberculosis.
Particulars of all new cases of Tuberculosis and of all deaths from this disease during 1948 are given in the following table in the form required by the Ministry of Health:—
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non.Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non.Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0.1 year | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1.5 years | 2 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| 5.15 years | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | – | – | – | – |
| 15.25 years | 29 | 24 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | – |
| 25.35 years | 39 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 35.45 years | 23 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | – | – |
| 45.55 years | 28 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 2 | – |
| 55.65 years | 15 | 7 | – | 1 | 17 | 3 | 1 | – |
| 65 and upwards | 13 | 3 | 2 | – | 13 | 2 | – | 1 |
| Totals | 158 | 80 | 19 | 17 | 62 | 28 | 5 | 3 |
The total number of Primary notifications was 274; in addition to these, 14 cases,
which had not been notified, came to knowledge by means of special death reports, and
75 cases by transfer from other districts. The total number of new cases during the year
from all sources was therefore 363, equal to a notification rate of 2.58 per 1,000 of population,
compared with 361 new cases during the previous year, with a notification rate of 2.64 per
1,000 population.
The deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis during the year numbered 98, equal to a
death rate of 0.69 per 1,000 of population, whereas the total number of deaths in the previous
year was 105, with a death rate of 0.77 per 1,000 population.
It will be noted that, out of a total of 98 deaths from Tuberculosis, 14 (being 14 per
cent.) were of cases which were notified only at death.