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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
Wembley 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley]
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No. admitted to Hospitals
or Sanatoria.
No. discharged from
Hospitals or Sanatoria.
127
105
During the year 124 cases were removed from
register and at 31st December, 698 names remained
on register - 600 Pulmonary and 98 Non-Pulmonary.
Of the 69 deaths from tuberculosis during
the year, 7 had not been notified during life
(that is 10.14%).
Notifications and Deaths from tuberculosis in 5-year period.
| Notification. | Deaths. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |
| 1939 | 100 | 22 | 48 | 9 |
| 1940 | 100 | 25 | 56 | 7 |
| 1941 | 142 | 19 | 64 | 3 |
| 1942 | 150 | 34 | 60 | 10 |
| 1943 | 133 | 19 | 64 | 5 |
Dr. Levwis-Faning has analysed the statistics
of Middlesex with regard to pulmonary tuberculosis
(British Medical Journal 27th November, 1943)
and his conclusion is that there is no evidence,
from the experience of the tuberculosis service
of the County of Middlesex, of a lowered
resistance to the disease to the point at which
duration of the illness was shortened, and hence
no evidence that lowered resistance was a causative
factor in the increase of tuberculosis mortality
which occurred 1940-1.
35.