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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
Woolwich 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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The following table gives the age groups of new cases notified
| Formal Notifications | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Primary Notificates of New Cases | |||||||||||
| 0- 1 | 1-4 | 5-14 | 15-24 | 25-34 | 35-44 | 45-54 | 55-64 | 65-74 | 75 & up | Total (all ages) | |
| PULMONARY -Males | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 50 |
| Females | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | 28 |
| NON-PULMONARY Males | - | - | 1 | - | l | - | - | 2 | - | - | 4 |
| Females | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 4 |
| Total | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 86 |
MASS X-RAY SERVICE
Mobile units of the South East London Mass X-Ray
Service visited the Borough regularly during 1959, and
over 20,000 persons were x-rayed.
At the special survey held in Powis Street, Woolwich,
during the year some 11,000 persons were x-rayed, and nearly
4,000 employees of Woolwich Arsenal were x-rayed during
April. The unit also visited a number of other local
factories. The great majority of those x-rayed were men,
special attention being paid to men over 45 years of age
for lung cancer. Six-monthly visits are being made to a
number of local factories for this purpose. At the end
of the year arrangements were also in hand for the unit
to make regular visits to central Woolwich on one day each
fortnight.
DISINFECTION AND DISINFESTATION
Following notification of infectious disease 113 rooms
were disinfected by the Department during 1959. Of this
-64-