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Coulsdon and Purley 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Coulsdon]
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children affected was high. Unfortunately well over half the notifications
for the District as a whole were in respect of children under school age.
The remarks made with regard to the spread of measles apply equally to
that of whooping cough.
No deaths have occurred locally from either of these diseases for the
last four years.
Tuberculosis.
The following table presents concisely the position with regard to tuberculosis in the District during 1948:—
| Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | Total. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Number of cases on register, 1st January, 1948 | 191 | 127 | 23 | 37 | 214 | 164 |
| Additions, 1948:— | ||||||
| New cases notified | 27 | 21 | 5 | 8 | 32 | 29 |
| Cases removed into District | 20 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 24 | 18 |
| Restored to register | I | — | 1 | — | 2 | — |
| Total Additions | 48 | 36 | 10 | 11 | 58 | 47 |
| Removals, 1948:— | ||||||
| Deaths | 11 | 7 | - | 3 | 11 | 10 |
| Removed from District | 22 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 10 |
| Recovered | 1 | 4 | - | — | 1 | 4 |
| Non-tuberculous | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Total Removed from Register | 34 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 37 | 25 |
| Number of cases on register, 1st January, 1949 | 205 | 144 | 30 | 42 | 235 | 186 |
The following table shows the age-groups in which notifications and deaths occurred:—
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non. pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 year | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| 1 and under 5 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 and under 10 | — | 1 | 2 | 3 | — | - | - | - |
| 10 and under 15 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 15 and under 20 | 2 | 2 | — | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| 20 and under 25 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | -_ |
| 25 and under 35 | 7 | 7 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 35 and under 45 | 4 | — | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| 45 and under 55 | 6 | 2 | 1 | - | 4 | - | - | - |
| 55 and under 65 | 1 | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | - | — |
| 65 and over | 2 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | 1 |
| Totals | 27 | 21 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 7 | — | 3 |