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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
Leyton 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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• 24
ENCEPHALITIS LETHARGICA.
Seven notifications were received.
Three deaths occurred.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
| Cases. | Vision unimpaired. | Vision impaired. | Total Blindness. | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified. | Treated. | |||||
| At home. | In hospital. | |||||
| 8 | 6 | 2 | 7 | — | — | — |
One case is still under observation.
TUBERCULOSIS.
One hundred and nine deaths occurred from all forms of
Tuberculosis, 97 being notified cases, which represents a deathrate
of .82 per 1,000 of the population. The deaths from
Pulmonary Tuberculosis were 97 and the rate .73.
Notifications of 178 cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and 53
other forms of Tuberculosis were received during the year.
TUBERCULOSIS.
| Age Period. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-P'lmonary | Pulmonary. | Non-P'lmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | — | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — |
| 10 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | 11 | 13 | — | 3 | 3 | 5 | — | 1 |
| 20 | 14 | 14 | — | 1 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 25 | 19 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 9 | — | — |
| 35 | 24 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | — | 1 |
| 45 | 14 | 6 | 3 | — | 9 | 6 | 1 | — |
| 55 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 65 and upwards | 3 | 2 | — | — | 4 | 4 | — | — |
| Totals | 95 | 83 | 22 | 31 | 55 | 40 | 6 | 8 |