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Shoreditch 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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19.
Particulars of new cases of tuberculosis and deaths during the year are given in the following table:-
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0-1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1-5 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5-15 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 15 - 25 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 25-45 | 21 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| 45-65 | 21 | 6 | - | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| 65-75 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| 75 and upwards | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| Totals | 58 | 42 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 5 | - | - |
During the year Sanitary Inspectors visited all new cases of tuberculosis
notified and also inspected the homes of all patients discharged from hospital
or removing from another area into this Borough,
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS 1925
These Regulations prohibit a person suffering from tuberculosis, and who
is in an infectious condition, from following any employment or occupation in
connection with a dairy which would involve the milking of cows, the treatment
of milk, or the handling of vessels used for containing milk. No formal
action was necessary during the year.
MASS MINIATURE RADIOGRAPHY.
When the Mass Radiography Unit under the direction of Doctor W.D.H.Thompson
was established at 20,Golden Lane, E.C.1., 1,583 Shoreditch firms, including
factories,warehouses,cookshops,ice cream shops and public houses were circulated
by this department and invited to send in numbers of their employees wishing to
have X-ray examination. The information was also passed to residents of the
borough through the monthly "News Letter" issued at the Public Libraries.
As a result, employees of 169 firms totalling 2,203 males and 1,370 females,
and 39 individual residents, were X-rayed during the year.