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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
Hornchurch 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]
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The notifications of cases of Tuberculosis included 49 males and 30 females suffering from Pulmonary, and 9 males and 15 females suffering from Non-Pulmonary forms of the disease. The 36 deaths included those of 7 pulmonary and 2 non-pulmonary cases which were not notified. The death rate was .559 per 1,000 and the rate for England and Wales was .692 per 1,000.
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| 5 | 7 | 6 | ||||||
| 15 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
| 25 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 6 | |||
| 35 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 45 | 13 | 1 | 5 | |||||
| 55 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 65 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| 49 | 30 | 9 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 3 | |
No action was taken under the Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1925, or under section 62 of the Public Health Act,
1925, (relating to the compulsory removal to hospital of persons suffering
from Tuberculosis).