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London County Council 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table: The annual death-rates per 1,000 population in London from pulmonary and non-pulmonary tuberculosis in recent years are shown in the subjoined table:—Table 22

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The annual death-rates per 1,000 population in London from pulmonary and non-pulmonary tuberculosis in recent years are shown in the subjoined table:—

Table 22

Period	Pulmonary tuberculosis death-rates			Non-pulmonary tuberculosis death-ratee
Period	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
1922-24	1.28	0.78	1.01	0.22	0.17	0.19
1925.27	1.19	0.67	0.91	0.18	0.14	0.15
1928	1.14	0.68	0.89	0.17	0.12	0.14
1929	1.24	0.72	0.96	0.15	0.11	0.13
1930	113	0.64	0.87	0.13	0.11	0.12
1931	1.14	0.68	0.90	0.15	0.11	0.13
1932	1.08	0.59	0.82	0.14	0.11	0.12
1933	1.10	0.58	0.82	0.12	0.10	0.11
1934	1.02	0.54	0.76	0.13	0.09	0.11
1935	0.90	0.49	0.68	0.10	0.08	0. 09
1936	0.94	0.47	0.69	0.10	0.07	0 .09
1937	0.93	0.50	0.71	0.10	0 08	0.09
1938	0.85	0.45	0.64	0.10	0.07	0.09

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The number of primary notifications in metropolitan boroughs during the year
1938, after correction of figures within each metropolitan borough by the exclusion of
cases notified as primary but subsequently found to have been previously notified,
was 6,182, the corresponding figure for 1937 being 6,469. The following is an analysis
of the notifications in London during the year 1938:—

Table: Table 23

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Table 23

Form of tuberculosis notified	Sex	Number of formal primary notifications of new cases of tuberculosis												Total notifications
Form of tuberculosis notified	Sex	-	1-	5-	10-	15-	20-	25-	35-	45-	65-	65+	Total all ages	Total notifications
Pulmonary tuberculosis	M.	6	43	54	00	287	382	670	530	483	409	130	3,060	3,956
Pulmonary tuberculosis	F.	12	30	39	64	348	469	599	200	143	100	64	2,140	2,825
Other forms of tuberculosis	M.	8	51	83	67	74	62	79	33	14	14	13	498	580
Other forms of tuberculosis	F.	8	45	51	49	63	66	89	42	31	15	25	484	561
All forms of tuberculosis	M.	14	94	137	127	361	444	749	503	497	423	149	3,558	4,536
All forms of tuberculosis	F.	20	81	90	113	411	535	088	308	174	115	89	2,024	3,386

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In addition to the primary cases shown in the above table, a number of cases
came to the knowledge of medical officers of health otherwise than by notification.
These figures include cases not notified until after death:—

Table: Table 24

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Table 24

Form of tuberculosis notified	Sex	New cases of tuberculosis coming to knowledge otherwise than by formal notification
Form of tuberculosis notified	Sex	0-	1-	5-	10-	16-	20-	25-	35-	45-	55-	65+	Total
Pulmonary tuberculosis	M.	5	11	9	10	21	71	134	124	84	65	38	572
Pulmonary tuberculosis	F.	2	10	8	9	42	102	179	66	36	24	21	499
Other forms of tuberculosis	M.	3	23	16	21	17	9	30	8	8	5	6	146
Other forms of tuberculosis	F.	2	21	17	15	18	15	32	14	6	7	6	153
All forms of tuberculosis	M.	8	34	25	31	38	80	164	132	92	70	44	718
All forms of tuberculosis	F.	4	31	25	24	60	117	211	80	42	31	27	652

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Table: The annual death-rates per 1,000 population in London from pulmonary and non-pulmonary tuberculosis in recent years are shown in the subjoined table:—Table 22

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Table: Table 23

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Table: Table 24