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Shoreditch 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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The deaths from tuberculosis of the lungs or consumption numbered 133, an
increase of nine on the figure for 1925. They were mostly amongst persons aged from
15 to 65 years. Eighty-two of them were of males. The death-rate was 1.2 per 1,000
being highest in Moorfields and lowest in Wenlock Ward, 1.76 and 0.9 per 1,000
respectively.
The deaths from tuberculosis in the Metropolis numbered 4,553, the death-rate
being 0.9 per 1,000 population. The deaths attributed to tuberculosis of the respiratory
system numbered 3,895, which gives a rate of 0.8 per 1,000 persons.
A summary of the notifications under the regulations received during the year
is contained in Table VIII. and the distribution of the cases according to age periods
and localities is given in Table II. (Appendix).
Subjoined are particulars of new cases and of deaths during 1926 in the form required by the Minister of Health:—
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0 | 1 | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | . |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 5 | ||
| 5 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 4 | . | . | . | 2 |
| 10 | . | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | . | 2 |
| 15 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 9 | . | . |
| 20 | 18 | 20 | . | 2 | 20 | 8 | . | 1 |
| 25 | 21 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 12 | . | 2 |
| 35 | 19 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 2 | . |
| 45 | 26 | 18 | . | . | 16 | 8 | . | |
| 55 | 15 | 3 | . | . | 13 | 3 | . | |
| 65 and upwards | 1 | . | 1 | . | 4 | 1 | . | . |
| Totals | 116 | 109 | 40 | 22 | 83 | 50 | 6 | 12 |
In addition it may be mentioned that a male aged from 35 to 45 years and a male in
the 1 to 5 years age period were transfers from other Boroughs. The former was
suffering from pulmonary and the latter from the non-pulmonary form of the disease.
The cases certified numbered 287, being at the rate of 2.7 per 1,000 persons in
the Borough, as compared with 2.9 in 1925, 2.4 in 1924, 2.4 in 1923, 2.7 in 1922,
2.5 in 1921, 3.0 in 1920 and 5.1 in 1919. The cases were most numerous in proportion
to the population in Wenlock Ward and least in Kingsland, being at the rate of 3.1
per 1,000 in the former as compared with 1.5 in the latter. The cases certified as
pulmonary tuberculosis numbered 225 and were at the rate of 2.1 per 1,000, as compared
with 2.2 in 1925, 2.0 in 1924, 2.1 in 1923, 2.1 in 1922, 2.1 in 1921, 2.8 in 1920,
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