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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]
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Tuberculosis.
The death rate was 0.605 per 1,000, and the rate for England and Wales was 0.635 per 1,000.
| Age periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | 15 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| 35 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| 45 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 47 | 44 | 26 | 28 | 23 | 13 | 5 | 5 | |
No action was taken under the Public Health (Prevention of
Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925, or under Section 62 of the Public
Health Act, 1925, or Section 172 of the Public Health Act, 1936
(relating to the compulsory removal to hospital of persons suffering
from Tuberculosis).