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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
Finchley 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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Tuberculosis
Nine persons died from tuberculosis during 1955, giving a death
rate of 0.129 per 1,000 population.
Fifty-two new cases were notified, and this number is the lowest
recorded since 1929. The case rate per 10,000 population was
7.44, the lowest recorded.
Only one child of school age was found to be suffering from
tuberculosis of the lungs.
Close co-operation between the Public Health Department, the
Area Health Department and the Chest Clinic in the constant search
for possible sources of infection in new cases of tuberculosis continues.
The following table shows the number of notifications and the number of deaths during the past 10 years:—
| Year | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 1946 | 43 | 26 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 2 |
| 1947 | 54 | 36 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 9 | 2 | — |
| 1948 | 37 | 26 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 |
| 1949 | 41 | 37 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 4 |
| 1950 | 37 | 21 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | — |
| 1951 | 37 | 30 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 2 |
| 1952 | 43 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 2 | — | — |
| 1953 | 29 | 33 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | — | — |
| 1954 | 29 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | — | — |
| 1955 | 27 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Mass Radiography
During the year, arrangements were made with the North-West
Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board for the Mass X-Ray Unit 5B
to visit Finchley. In April, public sessions, the first of their kind
in the Borough, were held at East Finchley, North Finchley and
Church End. 2,689 persons were X-rayed, of which 3 were found
to be suffering from tuberculosis.