London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Leyton 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]

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Pulmonary.Non-pulmonary.
Deaths.Death rate.Deaths.Death rate.
193266.528.06
193378.6312.09
193468.558.06
193569.568.06
193656.4613.10
3372.7249.37

It will be observed that the death rate from pulmonary
tuberculosis has been reduced by 37.03 per cent., and from nonpulmonary
tuberculosis by as much as 77.70 per cent, in the
comparatively short space of twenty-four years.

Notifications.—One hundred and thirty-three patients were notified for the first time in 1936 as suffering from tuberculosis. The number was made up as follows

Males.Females.Total
Pulmonary Tuberculosis5256108
Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis17825
6964. 133

During the year steps were taken, in conjunction with the local
Tuberculosis Officer and the Tuberculosis Consultant, Essex County
Council, to review as many as possible of the persons notified to be
suffering from Tuberculosis in the area. As a result it was found
possible to remove from the tuberculosis register the names of
15 children and 92 adults in whom evidence of active disease had
ceased to exist.