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Coulsdon and Purley 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Coulsdon]
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Home visitation and exclusion from school are still the two chief
methods relied upon to postpone the onset until the most favourable
age is reached to stand the disease, but the possibility of modifying
measles on a wider scale by an injection shortly after exposure to infection
is becoming more practicable each year.
Treatment in hospital is provided for a limited number of cases,
and 1 case of measles, 1 of rubella and 2 of mumps were admitted to the
Isolation Hospital during the year under this arrangement, social or
physical complications being present. Occasionally in addition cases
are admitted to the County Hospitals.
TUBERCULOSIS.
The following Table presents concisely the position with regard to
tuberculosis in this District during 1937.
The following Table presents concisely the position with regard to tuberculosis in this District during 1937.
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Total. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Number on register, 1st January, 1937 | 72 | 83 | 17 | 22 | 89 | 105 |
| Additions, 1937:— | ||||||
| New cases notified | 17 | 19 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 25 |
| Cases removed into District | 12 | - | 3 | - | 15 | 11 |
| Restored to register | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 4 | 2 |
| Total additions | 32 | 32 | 5 | 6 | 37 | 38 |
| Removals, 1937:— | ||||||
| Deaths | 11 | 6 | - | - | 11 | 6 |
| Removed from District | 12 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 20 |
| Recovered | 6 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 17 |
| Total removed from register | 29 | 34 | 6 | 9 | 35 | 43 |
| Number on register, 31st Dec., 1937. . | 75 | 81 | | 16 | 19 | 91 | 100 |
It will be noted that there were 43 new cases of tuberculosis notified
during the year, as compared with 30, 35, 45 and 54 in the preceding
4 years.
The following Table shows the age-periods at which the notifications
and deaths occurred.
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