Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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TUBERCULOSIS.
Improved Leyton Mortality Rates.
The following figures have been compiled to show the marked
fall in the number of deaths due to tuberculosis since the passing
of the Tuberculosis Regulations (1912).
For purpose of comparison the five-year period preceding 1912 is compared with the last
five years.
Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Deaths. | Death rate. | Deaths. | Death rate. | |
1908 | 102 | .84 | 43 | .35 |
1909 | 99 | .82 | 36 | .29 |
1910 | 101 | .82 | 32 | .26 |
1911 | 118 | .94 | 53 | .42 |
1912 | 115 | .90 | 44 | .34 |
535 | 4.32 | 208 | 1.66 |
For purpose of comparison the five-year period preceding 1912 is compared with the last
five years.
Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Deaths. | Death rate. | Deaths. | Death rate. | |
1933 | 78 | .63 | 12 | .09 |
1934 | 68 | .55 | 8 | .06 |
1935 | 69 | .56 | 8 | .06 |
1936 | 56 | .46 | 13 | .10 |
1937 | 55 | .46 | 8 | .06 |
326 | 2.66 | 49 | .37 |
It will be observed that the death rate from pulmonary
tuberculosis has been reduced by 38.42 per cent., and from nonpulmonary
tuberculosis by as much as 77.70 per cent. in the
comparatively short space of twenty-four years.