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Croydon 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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In all instances contacts of known cases of Tuberculosis are
also kept under supervision and re-examined at each school medical
inspection, by this means if a child who is a contact of a case of
Tuberculosis shows evidence of also contracting the disease the
appropriate measures can be put into operation without delay and
the progress of the complaint checked and finally arrested.
Contacts among School Children Examined in 1930.
No. of cases under observation beginning of 1930 15
No. of cases added during the year 165
No. of cases discharged from observation during the year 169
No. of cases under observation end of 1930 11
Notifications of and Deaths from Tuberculosis in Children of School Age.
| No. of Primary Notifications. | No. of Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F |
| 6 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ... |
The ages at death of the fatal cases were:— Pulmonary
10-15 years, 2 boys and 2 girls; Non-pulmonary, 3 boys in the
5-10 years age period and 1 boy in the 10-15 years period.
Taking the total school population as 25,235 the mortality rate
from Pulmonary Tuberculosis in school children was 16 per 100,000,
and the incidence rate 43 per 100,000. For non-pulmonary Tuberculosis
the respective figures were 16 and 59. For the whole population
the figures are: Pulmonary mortality rate, 69; pulmonary
incidence rate, 118; non-pulmonary mortality rate, 9; non-pulmonary
incidence rate, 24.
Nose and Throat.
Table VII. summarises the findings; in all the groups 649
boys and 630 girls had enlarged tonsils; 92 boys and 78 girls had
adenoids only; 277 boys and 247 girls had adenoids and enlarged
tonsils; 109 boys and 65 girls were mouth breathers; 564 boys and
409 girls exhibited enlarged glands in the neck.