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Walthamstow 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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WHOOPING COUGH
The incidence by months and Wards is given below:—
| January | 4 | July | 12 |
| February | 8 | August | 16 |
| March | 22 | September | 27 |
| April | 18 | October | 15 |
| May | 17 | November | 16 |
| June | 10 | December | 58 |
| Total | 223 | ||
| St. James Street . | 40 | ||
| High Street | 17 | ||
| Hoe Street | 26 | ||
| Wood Street | 22 | ||
| Hale End | 55 | ||
| Higham Hill | 63 | ||
| There were no deaths. | |||
TUBERCULOSIS
The following table shows particulars of new cases of tuberculosis and of all deaths from the disease in the Borough during 1947:—
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 year | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| 1-5 years | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 5-10 „ | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | — | — |
| 10-15 „ | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 15-20 „ | 8 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | — | — |
| 20-25 „ | 18 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | — | 1 |
| 25-35 „ | 14 | 11 | — | 1 | 4 | 4 | — | 1 |
| 35-45 „ | 14 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 10 | — | — |
| 45-55 „ | 10 | 2 | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | — |
| 55-65 „ | 9 | 2 | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| 65 and over | 3 | — | 2 | — | 7 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Totals | 80 | 49 | 9 | 13 | 28 | 25 | 1 | 4 |
| 129 | 22 | 53 | 5 | |||||
| 151 | 58 | |||||||
The 58 deaths represent a death rate of 0.47 per 1,000
population.
New cases in 1946 were 167 with 58 deaths—a rate of 0.5.