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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Metropolitan Boroughs | Estimated home population mid 1960 | New notifications | New notifications per 1,000 population | Deaths from tuberculosis | Tuberculosis deaths per 1,000 population | Pulmonary tuberculosis deaths per 1,000 population aged 15 and over | Number of tuberculosis cases on clinic registers at 31.12.60 | Cases on register per 1,000 population | ||||||
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Pulmonary | Tuberculosis of Meninges and C.N.S. | Other non. pulmonary tuberculosis | Total | Pulmonary | Non. pulmonary tuberculosis | Total deaths | ||||||||
Total | Percentage of pulmonary cases positive during 1960 | |||||||||||||
Chelsea | 49,140 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 0.55 | - | 2 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 361 | 4.8 | 7.3 | |
Fulham | 112,960 | 74 | — | 10 | 84 | 0.74 | 4 | - | 4 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 1,229 | 1.0 | 10.9 |
Hammersmith | 108,290 | 98 | — | 13 | 111 | 1.03 | 6 | l | 7 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 1,528 | 2.1 | 14.1 |
Kensington | 167,240 | 146 | 1 | 17 | 164 | 0.98 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 1,541 | 3.0 | 9.2 |
Hampstead | 98,080 | 65 | — | 10 | 75 | 0.76 | 4 | - | 4 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 1,180 | 2.9 | 12.0 |
Paddington | 113,350 | 137 | — | 14 | 151 | 1.33 | 8 | - | 8 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 1,369 | 3.6 | 12.1 |
St. Marylebone | 69,640 | 55 | — | 3 | 58 | 0.83 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 0.11 | 0.08 | 949 | 3.9 | 13.6 |
St. Pancras | 127,710 | 135 | — | 17 | 152 | 1.19 | 12 | 1 | 13 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 1,143 | 0.7 | 8.9 |
Westminster, City of | 92,940 | 92 | 1 | 3 | 96 | 1.03 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 739 | 1.2 | 8.0 |
Finsbury | 33,710 | 31 | — | 5 | 36 | 1.07 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.12 | 0.08 | 271 | 3.1 | 8.0 |
Holborn | 21,000 | 18 | — | 1 | 19 | 0.90 | 1 | _- | 1 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 261 | 2.4 | 12.2 |
Islington | 222,940 | 242 | 2 | 29 | 273 | 1.22 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 2,497 | 1.5 | 11.2 |
Hackney | 163,050 | 92 | — | 12 | 104 | 0.64 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 0.10 | 0.12 | 1,822 | 2.4 | 11.2 |
Shoreditch | 42,870 | 38 | — | 2 | 40 | 0.93 | 5 | - | 5 | 0.12 | 0.15 | 350 | 5.3 | 8.2 |
Stoke Newington | 50,240 | 38 | — | 6 | 44 | 0.88 | 8 | -_ | 8 | 0.16 | 0.21 | 807 | 1.4 | 16.1 |
Bethnal Green | 47,580 | 34 | — | 2 | 36 | 0.76 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 768 | 1.9 | 16.1 |
City of London | 4,890 | 7 | — | - | 7 | 1.43 | - | - | - | - | - | 62 | 5.1 | 12.7 |
Poplar | 63,340 | 41 | — | 4 | 45 | 0.71 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 0.19 | 0.21 | 551 | 1.8 | 8.7 |
Stepney | 93,850 | 116 | — | 7 | 123 | 1.31 | 8 | - | 8 | 0.09 | 0.11 | 1,280 | 1.9 | 13.6 |
Deptford | 69,330 | 80 | 3 | 4 | 87 | 1.25 | 7 | _- | 7 | 0.10 | 0.13 | 1,066 | 2.6 | 15.4 |
Greenwich | 88,310 | 47 | 1 | 6 | 54 | 0.61 | 4 | - | 4 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 1,061 | 1.6 | 12.0 |
Woolwich | 145,470 | 69 | — | 5 | 74 | 0.51 | 9 | - | 9 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 1,672 | 0.8 | 11.5 |
Camberwell | 175,020 | 164 | 2 | 14 | 180 | 103 | 15 | 3 | 18 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 1,012 | 2.3 | 5.8 |
Lewisham | 221,330 | 119 | — | 15 | 134 | 0.61 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 2,669 | 0.7 | 12.1 |
Bermondsey | 53,510 | 26 | — | 4 | 30 | 0.56 | 3 | - | 3 | 006 | 007 | 636 | 0.8 | 11.9 |
Lambeth | 224,080 | 137 | 1 | 8 | 146 | 0.65 | 15 | 6 | 21 | 009 | 009 | 3,407 | 1.5 | 15.2 |
Southwark | 88,690 | 103 | — | 10 | 113 | 1.27 | 14 | _ | 14 | 016 | 0.20 | 1,472 | 2.7 | 16.6 |
Battersea | 107,120 | 78 | 1 | 2 | 81 | 0.76 | 6 | - | 6 | 006 | 007 | 1,128 | 2.5 | 10.5 |
Wandsworth | 338,800 | 213 | 1 | 11 | 225 | 0.66 | 27 | 7 | 34 | 010 | 010 | 3,736 | 2.8 | 11.0 |
LONDON .. | 3,194,480 | 2,519 | 14 | 236 | 2,769 | 0.87 | 235 | 34 | 269 | 008 | 009 | 36,567 | 20 | 11.4 |