[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page 35

London County Council 1954

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

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Table: Table T .7 — Numbers on the registers, 1944-54

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Table T .7 — Numbers on the registers, 1944-54

	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954
Cases on the register at the end of the year: Pulmonary—
Males	14,340	15,018	15,695	16,374	17,224	18,203	19,090	19,119	17,336	18,475	18,897
Females	10,990	11,496	12,262	12,862	13,549	14,223	15,031	15,556	14,672	14,930	15,576
Other forms:
Males	2,866	2,813	2,821	2,699	2,889	2,752	2,591	2,520	1,530	1,508	1,442
Females	3,185	3,123	3,099	3,142	3,147	3,015	3,068	2,954	1,850	1,820	1,709
Total	31,381	32,450	33,877	35,077	36,809	38,193	39,780	40,149	35,388	36,733	37,624
No. per 1,000 of population	12.7	12.5	10.9	10.6	11.0	11.3	11.7	12.0	10.5	10.9	11.3
Since 1952 figures are taken from Chest Clinic registers; for earlier years they represent Borough M.O.H. registers.

Table: Table T.8 —Condition of new cases and their contacts

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Table T.8 —Condition of new cases and their contacts

	Men	Women	Children	Total
Number of new cases diagnosed as tuberculous
at chest clinics during the year	2,426	1,696	412	4,534
Percentage of these new cases found to be
'T.B. plus'(i.e. Infective)	38.6	25.1	4.6	30.5
Number of those who attended as contacts and who were :
(a) Diagnosed as tuberculous*	104(4.2)	125(3.3)	109(1.6)	338(2.6)
(b) Not tuberculous	2,195	3,479	6,104	11,778
(c) Not determined (as at 31.12.54)	172	231	700	1,103
*Figures in brackets are percentages of the total contacts examined