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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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T able T.12—
| Metropolitan Boroughs | Estimated home population '955 | New notifications | New notifications per 1,ooo population | Deaths ftom tuberculosis | Tuberculosis deaths per l,ooo population | Pulmonary tuberculosis deaths per 1,000population aged 15 and over | Number of tuberculosis cases on clinic registers at 31.12.55 | Cases on register per 1,000population | Mass X-ray findings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Tuberculosis of. Meninges and C.N.S. | Other non-pulmonary tuberculosis | Total | Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary tuberculosis | Total deaths | Number of pulmonary cases found per 1,000 adults examined | ||||||||
| Total | Percentage sputum positive during 1955 | ||||||||||||||
| Chelsea | 51,450 | 40 | 1 | 6 | 47 | 0.91 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 0.17 | 0.19 | 425 | 3.8 | 8.3 | 5.3 |
| Fulham | 118,600 | 101 | 1 | 11 | 113 | 0.95 | 27 | – | 27 | 0.23 | 0.28 | 1,357 | 3.5 | 11.4 | 4.3 |
| Hammersmith | 114,700 | 135 | – | 15 | 150 | 1.31 | 16 | – | 16 | 0.14 | 0.17 | 1,528 | 3.3 | 13.3 | 4.3 |
| Kensington | 169,400 | 193 | – | 25 | 218 | 1.29 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 1,649 | 4.7 | 9.7 | 4.2 |
| Hampstead | 97,710 | 84 | – | 4 | 88 | 0.90 | 13 | 2 | 15 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 875 | 6.1 | 9.0 | 4.0 |
| Paddington | 121,500 | 177 | 2 | 16 | 195 | 1.60 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 0.14 | 0.15 | 1,347 | 8.8 | 1.11 | 4.0 |
| St. Marylebone | 73,440 | 75 | – | 2 | 77 | 1.05 | 9 | – | 9 | 0.12 | 0.14 | 819 | 3.2 | 11.2 | 3.0 |
| St. Pancras | 134,500 | 209 | 2 | 19 | 230 | 1.71 | 31 | 3 | 34 | 0.25 | 0.28 | 1,202 | 11.5 | 8.9 | 7.2 |
| Westminster, City of | 97,630 | 110 | 1 | 14 | 125 | 1.28 | 22 | 3 | 25 | 0.26 | 0.26 | 890 | 4.3 | 9.1 | 5.5 |
| Finsbury | 35,100 | 41 | 1 | 5 | 47 | 1.34 | 15 | – | 15 | 0.43 | 0.54 | 242 | 5.8 | 6.9 | 3.3 |
| Holborn | 23,060 | 41 | – | 4 | 45 | 1.95 | 8 | – | 8 | 0.35 | 0.40 | 244 | 7.4 | 10.6 | 2.6 |
| Islington | 228,800 | 306 | 4 | 38 | 348 | 1.52 | 45 | 2 | 47 | 0.21 | 0.25 | 2,751 | 5.3 | 12.0 | 6.9 |
| Hackney | 167,200 | 111 | 2 | 16 | 129 | 0.77 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 2,036 | 2.9 | 12.2 | 4.2 |
| Shoreditch | 45,480 | 36 | 1 | 5 | 42 | 0.92 | 15 | – | 15 | 0.33 | 0.43 | 477 | 6.7 | 10.5 | 5.3 |
| Stoke Newington | 50,470 | 32 | – | 4 | 36 | 0.71 | 4 | – | 4 | 0.08 | 0.10 | 757 | 2.5 | 15.0 | 5.9 |
| Bethnal Green | 53,860 | 46 | – | 5 | 51 | 0.95 | 8 | – | 8 | 0.15 | 0.19 | 813 | 2.1 | 15.1 | 4.8 |
| City of London | 5,180 | 6 | – | 1 | 7 | 1.35 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.58 | 0.42 | 60 | 8.3 | 11.6 | – |
| Poplar | 70,260 | 59 | 1 | 9 | 69 | 0.98 | 16 | – | 16 | 0.23 | 0.30 | 574 | 4.2 | 8.2 | 3.4 |
| Stepney | 98,180 | 149 | 1 | 22 | 172 | 1.75 | 17 | 3 | 20 | 0.20 | 0.22 | 1,240 | 7.3 | 12.6 | 6.0 |
| Deptford | 72,890 | 164 | – | 4 | 168 | 2.30 | 14 | – | 14 | 0.19 | 0.25 | 1,134 | 2.5 | 15.6 | 7.6 |
| Greenwich | 89,490 | 89 | – | 7 | 96 | 1.07 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 1,003 | 3.2 | 11.2 | 6.0 |
| Woolwich | 148,500 | 141 | 1 | 9 | 151 | 1.02 | 22 | 1 | 23 | 0.15 | 0.19 | 1,973 | 1.6 | 13.3 | 4.9 |
| Camberwell | 178,400 | 303 | 1 | 14 | 318 | 1.78 | 28 | 2 | 30 | 0.17 | 0.20 | 2,002 | 0.6 | 11.2 | 6.7 |
| Lewisham | 223,400 | 255 | 1 | 14 | 270 | 1.21 | 22 | 4 | 26 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 2,771 | 10.1 | 12.4 | 3.9 |
| Bermondsey | 57,580 | 54 | – | 6 | 60 | 1.04 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 0.16 | 0.18 | 588 | 5.8 | 10.2 | 3.8 |
| Lambeth | 224,200 | 232 | – | 21 | 253 | 1.13 | 32 | 4 | 36 | 0.16 | 0.18 | 3,039 | 1.4 | 13.6 | 6.5 |
| Southwark | 93,820 | 146 | 2 | 7 | 155 | 1.65 | 23 | 3 | 26 | 0.28 | 0.31 | 1,394 | 3.7 | 14.9 | 2.8 |
| Battersea | 113,700 | 115 | 1 | 13 | 129 | 1.13 | 14 | – | 14 | 0.12 | 0.16 | 1,165 | 2.0 | 10.2 | 5.0 |
| Wandsworth | 336,500 | 307 | – | 26 | 333 | 0.99 | 49 | 4 | 53 | 0.16 | 0.18 | 3,866 | 3.7 | 11.5 | 6.2 |
| LONDON | 3,295,000 | 3,757 | 23 | 342 | 4,122 | 1.25 | 517 | 44 | 561 | 0.17 | 0.20 | 38,221 | 4.5 | 11.6 | 5.4 |