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Willesden 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table No. 8.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING THE YEAR.
| Disease. | Total Cases Notified. | Cases admitted to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willesden Municipal Hospital. | Other Hospitals. | Total Deaths. | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
| Diphtheria | 415 | 397 | 15 | 8 |
| Scarlet Fever | 371 | 322 | 5 | — |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | 11 | 8 | 1 | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 47 | 6 | 36 | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 284 | 7 | _* | 146 |
| Small Pox | — | — | - | - |
| Cholera | — | — | - | — |
| Plague | — | — | - | — |
| Erysipelas | 72 | 30 | 21 | 2 |
| Typhus Fever | — | — | — | — |
| Relapsing Fever | — | — | — | — |
| Continued Fever | — | — | — | — |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 19 | 14 | 5 | 4 |
| Poliomyelitis | 4 | — | 3 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 26 | 11 | 8 | — |
| Malaria | — | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | 37 | 10 | 13 | — |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | — | — | 3 |
| Acute Polio-Encephalitis | — | — | — | — |
| Anthrax | — | — | — | — |
| Tuberculosis:— | ||||
| (a) Pulmonary | 241 | — | -* | 101 |
| (b) Non-Pulmonary ......... | 62 | — | _* | 16 |
| Whooping Cough ......... | 277 | 19 | _* | 3 |
For analysis of the age groups see Appendix "A" Table IV. * No complete record.
Table No. 9.
TUBERCULOSIS.
New Cases and Mortality during 1938.
This table includes primary notifications received from Medical Practitioners, cases not notified but included in the death returns and cases transferred from other areas.
| Age-Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory. | Non-Respiratory. | Respiratory. | N on-Respiratory. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | 6 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | 14 | 28 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 2 |
| 25 | 33 | 29 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 0 |
| 35 | 23 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 45 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 65 and upwards | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Totals | 130 | 111 | 30 | 32 | 52 | 49 | 7 | 9 |
The ratio of non-notified tuberculosis deaths to total tuberculosis deaths was 1:30.