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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
Walthamstow 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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The ratio of deaths in non-notified cases (i.e., columns to the
right of the double line) to total deaths from tuberculosis was
5 to 28 or 1 to 5.6.
The table given below shows the number of cases on the register at the beginning and end of 1950 :—
| Pulmonary. | Total. | Non-Pulmonary. | Total. | Grand Total. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | ||||
| No. on Register 1st January | 1,059 | 894 | 1,953 | 489 | 403 | 892 | 2,845 |
| Notified during 1950 | 66 | 32 | 98 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 105 |
| Totals | 1,125 | 926 | 2,051 | 493 | 406 | 899 | 2,9 0 |
| Removed from Register, 1950 | 59 | 45 | 104 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 121 |
| No. on Register 31st December | 1,066 | 881 | 1,947 | 484 | 398 | 882 | 2,829 |
Removals from the Register are made up as follows:—
| Deaths. | Removals. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 19 | 14 | — | 1 | 40 | 31 | 9 1 | 8 | |
| 33 | - | 71 | 17 | |||||
| 33 | 88 | |||||||
| 121 | ||||||||