Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table 15—District Nursing Associations—Completed Treatments by Diagnosis— Year Ended 31st December, 1950
Disease | Total Cases | Males | Total Males | Females | Total Females | |||||||||||||
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0-39 | 40-59 | 60 + | 0-39 | 40-59 | 60 + | |||||||||||||
No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | |
Infectious and parasitic diseases | 1,733 | 4.02 | 543 | 1.26 | 27 | 0.06 | 29 | 0.07 | 599 | 1.39 | 965 | 2.24 | 64 | 0.15 | 105 | 0.24 | 1,134 | 2.63 |
Tuberculosis (all forms) | 1,515 | 3.52 | 365 | 0.85 | 314 | 0.73 | 126 | 0.29 | 805 | 1.87 | 490 | 1.14 | 168 | 0.39 | 52 | 0.12 | 710 | 1.65 |
Cancer and other neoplasms | 2,198 | 5.10 | 37 | 0.08 | 251 | 0.58 | 620 | 1.44 | 908 | 2.10 | 67 | 0.16 | 350 | 0.81 | 873 | 2.03 | 1,290 | 3.00 |
Diabetes | 1,334 | 3.11 | 19 | 0.04 | 50 | 0.12 | 179 | 0.42 | 248 | 0.58 | 48 | 0.11 | 239 | 0.56 | 799 | 1.86 | 1,086 | 2.53 |
Mental and other nervous diseases | 472 | 1.10 | 28 | 0.07 | 48 | 0.11 | 79 | 0.18 | 155 | 0.36 | 49 | 0.12 | 94 | 0.22 | 174 | 0.40 | 317 | 0.74 |
Diseases of ear and eye and other sense organs | 2,347 | 5.45 | 925 | 2.15 | 59 | 0.14 | 74 | 0.17 | 1,058 | 2.46 | 972 | 2.26 | 127 | 0.29 | 190 | 0.44 | 1,289 | 2.99 |
Cerebral haemorrhage | 1,892 | 4.39 | 2 | — | 47 | 0.11 | 594 | 1.38 | 643 | 1.49 | 25 | 0.06 | 113 | 0.26 | 1,111 | 2.58 | 1,249 | 2.90 |
Heart and arteries | 3,969 | 9.22 | 42 | 0.10 | 246 | 0.57 | 1,210 | 2.81 | 1,498 | 3.48 | 134 | 0.31 | 432 | 1.00 | 1,905 | 4.43 | 2,471 | 5.74 |
Veins and other circulatory | 525 | 1.22 | 11 | 0.03 | 39 | 0.09 | 83 | 0.19 | 133 | 0.31 | 44 | 0.10 | 112 | 0.26 | 236 | 0.55 | 392 | 0.91 |
Respiratory disease | 6,394 | 14.85 | 1,117 | 2.59 | 513 | 1.19 | 861 | 2.00 | 2,491 | 5.78 | 1,553 | 3.61 | 777 | 1.81 | 1,573 | 3.65 | 3,903 | 9.07 |
Digestive disease | 5,209 | 12.10 | 503 | 1.18 | 418 | 0.97 | 959 | 2.23 | 1,883 | 4.38 | 874 | 2.03 | 725 | 1.68 | 1,727 | 4.01 | 3,326 | 7.72 |
Genito.urinary disease | 3,547 | 8.24 | 747 | 1.74 | 68 | 0.16 | 382 | 0.88 | 1,197 | 2.78 | 1,133 | 2.63 | 408 | 0.95 | 809 | 1.88 | 2,350 | 5.46 |
Pregnancy | 699 | 1.62 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 665 | 1.54 | 34 | 0.08 | — | — | 699 | 1.62 |
Skin | 3,912 | 9 09 | 752 | 1.75 | 336 | 0.78 | 445 | 1.03 | 1,533 | 3.56 | 845 | 1.96 | 576 | 1.34 | 958 | 2.23 | 2,379 | 5.53 |
Bones and joints | 1,059 | 2.47 | 48 | 0.11 | 59 | 0.14 | 102 | 0.24 | 209 | 0.49 | 96 | 0.22 | 166 | 0.39 | 588 | 1.37 | 850 | 1.98 |
Injury | 1,197 | 2.78 | 156 | 0.36 | 57 | 0.13 | 126 | 0.30 | 339 | 0.79 | 128 | 0.30 | 127 | 0.29 | 603 | 1.40 | 858 | 1.99 |
Other diseases or ill.defined | 5,046 | 11.72 | 574 | 1.33 | 313 | 0.73 | 823 | 1.91 | 1,710 | 3.97 | 811 | 1.88 | 618 | 144 | 1,907 | 4.43 | 3,336 | 7.75 |
Totals | 43,048 | 100.00 | 5,872 | 13.64 | 2,845 | 6.61 | 6,692 | 15.54 | 15,409 | 35.79 | 8,899 | 20.67 | 5,130 | 11.92 | 13,610 | 31.62 | 27,639 | 64.21 |
N.B.—All percentages arc of the total cases—43,048.