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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 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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Deaths.—Forty-one deaths from tuberculosis were recorded.
The following table gives particulars regarding the new cases which have occurred during the year :—
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0 | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | — | - | 1 | - |
| 15 | 5 | 7 | — | - |
| 20 | 4 | 8 | — | 1 |
| 25 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 1 |
| 35 | 7 | 2 | - | - |
| 45 | 5 | 3 | — | — |
| 55 | 4 | 2 | — | — |
| 65 and upwards | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| Totals | 50 | 39 | 4 | 5 |
Institutional Treatment.
During 1947 the following Leyton patients were sent to sanatoria or other institutions for the treatment of Tuberculosis :—
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Total. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | ||
| Adults | 32 | 30 | 1 | 3 | 66 |
| Children | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 |