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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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MENINGITIS.
Three persons were notified to be suffering from meningococcal
infection; and were admitted to hospital. As the result of a
post mortem examination by H.M. Coroner, one infant (aged ten
months) was found to have died from acute meningococcal infection.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Notifications.—One hundred and fourteen patients were
notified for the first time in 1951 as suffering from tuberculosis. The
number was made up as follows:—
Males. Females. Total.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis 47 53 100
Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis 6 8 14
53 61 114
The following is a statement of particulars appearing in the Register of Notifications of Cases of Tuberculosis for the year ended 31st December, 1951:—
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | TOTAL | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | ||
| Number on Register at commencement of year | 410 | 300 | 710 | 28 | 46 | 74 | 784 |
| Number first notified during the year | 47 | 53 | 100 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 114 |
| Number of cases entered in Register otherwise than by Notification | 7 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 21 |
| Number removed from the Register during the year | 58 | 22 | 80 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 96 |
| Number remaining at the end of the year | 406 | 340 | 746 | 28 | 49 | 77 | 823 |
| Details of cases removed from the Register during the year:— | |||||||
| Died | 29 | 10 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 42 |
| Removed from the dis* trict | 21 | 6 | 27 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 33 |
| De-notified | 8 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 21 |