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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 1958

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

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Natural trends and the effects of B.C.G. vaccination and of recent chemotherapeutic
measures on the number of new cases in males and females throughout the various
ages of life are demonstrated graphically.
NOTIFICATION OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, LONDON A.C. 1953.54
AND 1957-58—THREE-YEAR MOVING AVERAGES.
These show by a comparison of figures for 1953-54 with those for 1957-58 how
great has been the fall in new notifications of pulmonary tuberculosis between ages
15 and 52 in the case of men and between 13 and 42 in the case of women.