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 T1—
Year(s) | Pulmonary tuberculosis | Non-pulmonary tuberculosis | ||||||
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Statutory notifications | Deaths | Statutory notifications | Deaths | |||||
No. | Annual rate per 1,000 living | No. | Annual rate per 1,000 living | No. | Annual rate per 1,000 living | No. | Annual rate per 1,000 living | |
1921-25 | 38,807 | 1.71 | 22,980 | 1.01 | 10,881 | 0.48 | 4,383 | 0.19 |
1926-30 | 34,353 | 1.53 | 20,247 | 0.90 | 8,971 | 0.40 | 3,080 | 0.14 |
1931-35 | 29,569 | 1.38 | 17,075 | 0.79 | 6,322 | 0.29 | 2,354 | 0.11 |
1936-40 | 24,848 | 1.29 | 13,664 | 0.71 | 4,510 | 0.23 | 1,861 | 0.09 |
1941 | 4,577 | 1.83 | 2,552 | 1.02 | 675 | 0.27 | 343 | 0.14 |
1942 | 4,734 | 1.80 | 2,164 | 0.82 | 796 | 0.30 | 283 | 0.11 |
1943 | 5,066 | 1.82 | 2,204 | 0.79 | 782 | 0.28 | 256 | 0.09 |
1944 | 5,056 | 1.84 | 2,073 | 0.75 | 673 | 0.24 | 237 | 0.09 |
1945 | 4,893 | 1.68 | 2,033 | 0.70 | 614 | 0.21 | 224 | 0.08 |
1946 | 5,137 | 1.57 | 1,940 | 0.59 | 611 | 0.19 | 243 | 0.07 |
1947 | 5,421 | 1.59 | 2,044 | 0.60 | 662 | 0.19 | 252 | 0.07 |
1948 | 5,473 | 161 | 1,900 | 0.56 | 600 | 0.18 | 202 | 0.06 |
1949 | 5,699 | 1.68 | 1,585 | 0.47 | 553 | 0.16 | 156 | 0.05 |
1950 | 5,189 | 1.53 | 1,225 | 0.36 | 529 | 0.16 | 122 | 0.04 |
1951 | 4,897 | 1.46 | 1,154 | 0.34 | 507 | 0.15 | 125 | 0.04 |
1952 | 4,713 | 1.40 | 933 | 0.28 | 518 | 0.15 | 86 | 0.03 |
1953 | 4,668 | 1.40 | 690 | 0.21 | 410 | 0.12 | 73 | 0.02 |
1954 | 4,231 | 1.27 | 596 | 0.18 | 410 | 0.12 | 62 | 0.02 |
1955 | 3,757 | 1.14 | 517 | 0.16 | 365 | 0.11 | 44 | 0.01 |
1956 | 3,602 | 110 | 423 | 0.13 | 327 | 0.10 | 32 | 0.01 |
(a) Excluding posthumous notifications.
Table T2—
Year | Age | |||||||||
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0-4 | 5-14 | 15-44 | 45 and over | All ages | ||||||
M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
1947 | 0.81 | 0.76 | 1.01 | 0.96 | 2.56 | 2.41 | 1.61 | 0.36 | 1.89 | 1.32 |
1948 | 1.08 | 0.94 | 0.87 | 0.96 | 2.66 | 2.40 | 1.60 | 0.34 | 1.93 | 1.32 |
1949 | 1.08 | 0.94 | 0.82 | 1.04 | 2.70 | 2.45 | 1.84 | 0.39 | 2.03 | 1.36 |
1950 | 1.15 | 0.86 | 0.75 | 0.77 | 2.46 | 2.34 | 1.59 | 0.33 | 1.83 | 1.26 |
1951 | 0.98 | 0.92 | 0.74 | 0.68 | 2.18 | 1.98 | 1.91 | 0.36 | 1.80 | 1.16 |
1952 | 0.65 | 0.70 | 0.53 | 0.61 | 2.16 | 1.90 | 1.88 | 0.43 | 1.73 | 1.11 |
1953 | 0.84 | 0.85 | 0.69 | 0.65 | 2.01 | 1.80 | 2.09 | 0.42 | 1.76 | 1.08 |
1954 | 0.64 | 0.55 | 0.48 | 0.55 | 1.79 | 1.71 | 2.02 | 0.41 | 1.60 | 0.99 |
1955 | 0.56 | 0.42 | 0.39 | 0.48 | 1.65 | 1.48 | 1.82 | 0.41 | 1.45 | 0.86 |
1956 | 0.33 | 0.37 | 0.31 | 0.34 | 1.62 | 1.31 | 2.01 | 0.41 | 1.47 | 0.78 |
1947 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.70 | 0.70 | 1.24 | 0.32 | 0.78 | 0.44 |
1948 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.66 | 0.65 | 1.27 | 0.23 | 0.76 | 0.37 |
1949 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.46 | 0.46 | 1.21 | 0.26 | 0.65 | 0.30 |
1950 | 0.05 | —_ | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.34 | 0.32 | 0.99 | 0.22 | 0.51 | 0.22 |
1951 | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02 | 0.27 | 0.21 | 1.23 | 0.22 | 0.53 | 0.18 |
1952 | — | — | — | — | 0.18 | 0.16 | 1.08 | 0.18 | 0.44 | 0.14 |
1953 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.81 | 0.13 | 0.33 | 0.10 |
1954 | — | 0.03 | — | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.10 | 0.74 | 0.12 | 0.28 | 0.09 |
1955 | 0.02 | — | 0.00 | — | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.66 | 0.11 | 0.25 | 0.07 |
1956 | — | 0.02 | — | — | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.52 | 0.09 | 0.21 | 0.06 |