Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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TUBERCULOSIS.
Notifications.—On e hundred and six patients were notified for the first time in 1940 as suffering from tuberculosis. The number was made up as follows :—
Males. | Females. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 49 | 33 | 82 |
Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 11 | 13 | 24 |
60 | 46 | 106 |
During the year it was found possible to remove from the
tuberculosis register the names of 3 children and 12 adults
in whom evidence of active disease had ceased to exist.
The following is a statement of particulars appearing in the Register of Notifications of Cases of Tuberculosis for the year ended 31st December, 1940
Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | total | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | ||
Deaths.—Seventy-three deaths from tuberculosis were
recorded.