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Hendon 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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DYSENTERY.
66 cases of Dysentery were notified, an increase of 35 over
the previous year. This, however, does not, in my opinion,
represent an actual increase to this extent in the incidence
of the disease but is due to a growing realisation amongst
practitioners that many cases of gastroenteritis are due to the
Sonne bacillus and this was confirmed in the majority of cases
by bacteriological investigation.
TABLE XVII.
TUBERCULOSIS.
| NEW CASES | DEATHS. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age Periods | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | ||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0—1 | — | - | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — |
| 1—5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - |
| 5—10 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 10—15 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 15—20 | 7 | 19 | 3 | 2 | — | 2 | — | — |
| 20—25 | 18 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | — |
| 25—35 | 32 | 30 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 5 | - | 2 |
| 35—45 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | — |
| 45—55 | 14 | 6 | — | — | 7 | 1 | — | — |
| 55—65 | 9 | 1 | — | — | 10 | 2 | — | 1 |
| 65 and upwards | — | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | 1 |
| Totals | 103 | 92 | 14 | 18 | 36 | 22 | 7 | 5 |
The ratio of non-notified tuberculosis deaths to total
tuberculosis deaths is 8.62.
The number of cases remaining on the Tuberculosis
Register was:—
Non-Pulmonary 229
Pulmonary 698