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St Pancras 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Tuberculosis.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930.
The number of primary notifications during the year was 284, in addition to which
13 cases not previously notified came to knowledge by means of special death reports, and 96
by transfer from other districts. The total number of new cases from all sources was therefore
393, equal to a notification rate of 2.82 per 1,000 of population, compared with 376 new cases
during the previous year, with a notification rate of 2.66 per 1,000 population.
The deaths from all forms of tuberculosis during the year numbered 73, equal to a
death rate of 0.52 per 1,000 of population, whereas the total number of deaths in the previous
year was 76 with a death rate of 0.53. Out of the 73 deaths, 13 (being 17.8 per cent.) were
of cases not previously notified as suffering from tuberculosis.
The number of primary notifications of tuberculosis and those which came to knowledge
by means of death reports and transfers from other districts as well as deaths during the year,
are given in the following three tables:—
| Age periods | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 to 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 55 | 55 to 65 | 65 and upwards | Totals | |
| Pulmonary— | ||||||||||||
| Males | — | . 5 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 30 | 25 | 17 | 18 | 148 | |
| Females | — | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 100 | |||||
| Non-pulmonary— | ||||||||||||
| Males | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 14 | ||
| Females | — | 4 | — | 3 | — | — | 1 | |||||
| Totals | — | 14 | 13 | 5 | 24 | 47 | 72 | 41 | 24 | 284 | ||
| Age periods | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 to 1 | 1 to 5 | 5to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15to 20 | 20 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 55 | 55 to 65 | 65 and upwards | Totals | |
| Pulmonary— | ||||||||||||
| Males | _ | _ | 1 | _ | 2 | 15 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 71 |
| Females | _ | 1 | _ | 1 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 34 |
| Non-Pulmonary— | ||||||||||||
| Males | — | — | _ | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | _ | 2 |
| Females | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Totals | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 39 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 109* |
*13 of these cases came to knowledge by means of special death reports, and 96 by transfer from other
districts.
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