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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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 |