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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
East Ham 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 10 - PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1952 SUMMARY OF NOTIFICATIONS DURING THE PERIOD FROM 1ST JANUARY, 1 958 TO THE 31ST DECEMBER, 1959
Formal Notifications
| Age Periods | Number of Primary Notifications of new cases of tuberculosis | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0- | 1- | 2- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | 75- | Total (all ages) | ||
| Respiratory, Males | 1958 | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | – | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 58 |
| 1959 | – | – | 2 | – | – | 4 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 54 | |
| Respiratory, Females .. | 1958 | – | – | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | – | 42 |
| 1959 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | – | 1 | 35 | |
| No n-Resp i ratory, Males | 1958 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 5 |
| 1959 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
| Non-Respiratory, Females | 1958 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| 1959 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
The following new cases of Tuberculosis were extracted from the Death Returns from the Registrar
General's (Transferable Deaths) for the years 1958 and 1959.
RESPIRATORY TUBERCULOSIS
TABLE 11
| YEAR | SEX | Number of cases in age Groups | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| o- | 1- | 2- | 5- | 10- | ,5- | 20– | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65– | 75- | Total | ||
| 1958 | FEMALE | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| 1959 | MALE | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 4 |
From time to time I have drawn attention to the decline ir mortality from pulmonary tuberculosis
due to a combination of medical and environmental circumstances. In 1952, 26 persons died from this
disease of the lungs In 1959, only 8 succumbed in this way. It is more pleasing even to record the
decline in the incidence of new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis,, for each new notification indicates a
potential source of infection to an ever widening circle of contacts. Reference to the appended table
Indicates the gradual decline in the incidence of new cases (i.e„ a steady fall in the attack rate)
between the years 1954/59.
It is more important now, than ever before, to discover the "new case" before he has had a chance
to disseminate the disease, and here the alert general practitioner, the local authority clinic and
school medical officers, the chest clinic ana the local Mass Radiograph Unit all share a heavy
responsibility.
Notifications of cases_of Pulmonary Tuberculosis (from all sources) 1954-1959
1954 127
1955 110
1956 120
1957 108
1958 101
1959 93