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Croydon 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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culosis Officer are re-inspected by the School Medical Inspector
at each of his subsequent visits to the school department which
the child attends. In this way suspected children are kept under
dose supervision.
In all instances contacts of known cases of Tuberculosis are
also kept under supervision and re-examined at each school medical
inspection; bv 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 1931.
No. of cases under observation beginning of 1931 11
No. of cases added during the year 177
No. of cases discharged from observation during the year 185
No. of cases under observation end of 3
| No. of Primary Notifications. | No of Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | N on-Pulmonary. | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F |
The ages at Death of the Fatal Cases were :—Pulmonary
10-15 years, 1 girl; Non-pulmonary, 1 bov and 1 girl in the 5-10
years age period, and 1 girl in the 10-15 years period.
Taking the total school population as 25,637 the mortality
rate from Pulmonary Tuberculosis in school children was 4 per
100,000, and the incidence rate 47 per 100,000. For Non-pulmonary
Tuberculosis the respective figures were 4 and 12. For
the whole population the figures are : Pulmonary mortality rate,
58; pulmonary incidence rate, 146; non-pulmonary mortality rate,
8; non-pulmonary incidence rate, 34.