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 Wimbledon]
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15.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Sixty-seven cases of tuberculosis wore notified. This
figure shows a decrease of six on the number for the previous year.
The deaths from tuberculosis were six fewer than in 1939, the
total figure being twenty-six.
Twenty-three of these were due to pulmonary tuberculosis.
During 1940, forty-seven Wimbledon patients were admitted to
sanatoria or hospitals.
TUBERCULOSIS - 1940.
AGE GROUPS | NEW CASES | DEATHS | ||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Primary Notifications (Form A) | New cases discovered otherwise than by Notification | Total New Cases | ||||||||||||||
Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary . | |||||||||
Males | Females | Males | Females | Males | Females | Males | Females | Males | Females | Males | Females | Males | Females | Males | Females | |
Under 1 year | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 |
1-5 years | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
5-10 " | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
10-15 " | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
15-20 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
20-25 " | - | 5 | - | - | 5 | 4 | - | 1 | 5 | 9 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - |
25-35 " | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | - | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
35-45 " | 3 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | - |
45-55 " | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 4 | 3 | - | - | 7 | 2 | - | - |
55-65 " | 2 | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
65 and over | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
15 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 32 | 26 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 1 | |
Totals | 28 | 6 | 30 | 3 | 58 | 9 | 23 | 3 | ||||||||
34 | 33 | 67 | 26 | |||||||||||||
67 |