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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 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table T.10—
| Metropolitan Boroughs | Estimated home population mid 1963 | 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 31.12.63 | Cases on register per 1,000 population | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary tuberculosis | Total deaths | Pulmonary | Tuberculosis of Meninges and C.N.S. | Other non-pulmonary tuberculosis | Total | Total | Percentage of pulmonary cases positive* during 1963 | ||||||
| Chelsea | 48,050 | 22 | - | 5 | 27 | 0.56 | 1 | 3 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 302 | 11.8 | 6.2 | |
| Fulham | 109,700 | 58 | 1 | 12 | 71 | 0.65 | 12 | - | 12 | 0.11 | 0.13 | 1,203 | 4.8 | 10.9 |
| Hammersmith | 107,660 | 59 | 2 | 12 | 73 | 0.68 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 1,379 | 3.0 | 12.8 |
| Kensington | 172,170 | 143 | 1 | 7 | 151 | 0.88 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 1,128 | 3.4 | 6.6 |
| Hampstead.. | 97,980 | 54 | - | 10 | 64 | 0.65 | 5 | - | 5 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 625 | 5.8 | 6.4 |
| Paddington.. | 113,960 | 135 | 1 | 11 | 147 | 1.29 | 11 | - | 11 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 1,097 | 4.0 | 9.7 |
| St. Marylebone | 67,320 | 37 | - | 3 | 40 | 0.59 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 0.13 | 0.08 | 592 | 3.2 | 8.7 |
| St. Pancras | 123.610 | 116 | 1 | 7 | 124 | 1.00 | 10 | - | 10 | 0.08 | 0.10 | 1,104 | 2.1 | 8.9 |
| Westminster, City of | 86,550 | 56 | - | 5 | 61 | 0.70 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 733 | 0.6 | 8.5 |
| Finsbury | 32,230 | 19 | - | 4 | 23 | 0.71 | 2 | - | 2 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 260 | 5.3 | 8.0 |
| Holborn | 20,700 | 22 | - | 1 | 23 | 1.11 | 2 | - | 2 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 219 | 7.1 | 10.6 |
| Islington | 227,410 | 227 | 1 | 26 | 254 | 1.12 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 2,342 | 2.4 | 10.3 |
| Hackney | 163,170 | 88 | - | 10 | 98 | 0.60 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 1,625 | 3.9 | 10.0 |
| Shoreditch | 38,330 | 13 | - | 4 | 17 | 0.44 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0.13 | 0.14 | 315 | 6.3 | 8.0 |
| Stoke Newington | 52,830 | 27 | - | 9 | 36 | 0.68 | 3 | - | 3 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 688 | 4.1 | 13.0 |
| Bethnal Green | 46,090 | 32 | - | 3 | 35 | 0.76 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0.11 | 0.08 | 692 | 3.2 | 15.0 |
| City of London | 4,580 | 6 | - | - | 6 | 1.31 | - | - | - | - | - | 68 | 9.4 | 14.8 |
| Poplar | 67,830 | 43 | - | 9 | 52 | 0.77 | 8 | - | 8 | 0.12 | 0.16 | 576 | 2.5 | 8.6 |
| Stepney | 89,930 | 109 | 2 | 17 | 128 | 1.42 | 11 | - | 11 | 0.12 | 0.16 | 1,247 | 2.2 | 13.8 |
| Deptford | 68,450 | 84 | - | 4 | 88 | 1.29 | 7 | - | 7 | 0.10 | 0.13 | 1.111 | 4.3 | 16.1 |
| Greenwich | 83,760 | 27 | - | 5 | 32 | 0.38 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 0.12 | 0.14 | 983 | 3.1 | 11.6 |
| Woolwich | 148,690 | 40 | 1 | 5 | 46 | 0.31 | 13 | 3 | 16 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 1,526 | 2.1 | 10.3 |
| Camberwell | 174,220 | 116 | - | 7 | 123 | 0.71 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 888 | 9.3 | 5.1 |
| Lewisham | 222,730 | 108 | 1 | 13 | 122 | 0.55 | 15 | -_ | 15 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 2,172 | 2.1 | 9.8 |
| Bermondsey | 50,540 | 28 | - | 2 | 30 | 0.59 | 5 | - | 5 | 0.10 | 0.13 | 668 | 1.9 | 13.1 |
| Lambeth | 223,120 | 92 | 1 | 14 | 107 | 0.48 | 18 | 4 | 22 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 3,469 | 1.2 | 15.5 |
| Southwark | 85,870 | 53 | 1 | 9 | 63 | 0.73 | 13 | 1 | 14 | 0.16 | 0.20 | 1,441 | 3.3 | 14.6 |
| Battersea | 102,940 | 41 | - | 5 | 46 | 0.45 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 0.08 | 0.09 | 882 | 3.4 | 8.5 |
| Wandsworth | 348,450 | 138 | 2 | 32 | 172 | 0.49 | 22 | 3 | 25 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 2,966 | 3.2 | 8.5 |
| LONDON | 3,178,870 | 1,993 | 15 | 251 | 2,259 | 0.71 | 233 | 32 | 265 | 0.08 | 0.09 | 32,301 | 3.2 | 10.1 |