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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
Southall 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]
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Table No. 35.
| Year | Male | Female | Total | Estimated population | Rate per 1,000 population |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 18 | 18 | 36 | ||
| 1923 | 21 | 14 | 35 | ||
| 1924 | 20 | 18 | 38 | ||
| 1925 | – | – | 40 | ||
| 1926 | 12 | 11 | 23 | ||
| 1927 | 13 | 13 | 26 | ||
| 1928 | 18 | 27 | 45 | ||
| 1929 | 12 | 10 | 22 | ||
| 1930 | 17 | 29 | 46 | ||
| 1931 | 20 | 28 | 48 | ||
| 1932 | 22 | 23 | 45 | ||
| 1933 | 23 | 28 | 51 | ||
| 1934 | 22 | 27 | 49 | ||
| 1935 | 30 | 27 | 57 | ||
| 1936 | 22 | 30 | 52 | ||
| 1937 | 42 | 28 | 70 | ||
| 1938 | 27 | 30 | 57 | ||
| 1939 | 33 | 41 | 74 | ||
| 1940 | 28 | 36 | 64 | ||
| 1941 | 34 | 37 | 71 |
The following table shows the age distribution of the cancer deaths :—
Table No. 36.
Ages at Death in Cancer Cases.
| Age | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-15 | 15-30 | 30-40 | 40-50 | 50-60 | 60-70 | 70-80 | 80+ | |
| Male | – | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 2 |
| Female | – | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 13 | 1 |
| Total | – | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 25 | 19 | 3 |
Special Infectious Diseases.
Smallpox (Variola).
No patients with smallpox or contacts of cases of smallpox were notified to the
Department during the year. No work was done under the Public Health (Smallpox
prevention) Regulation, 1917.
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina).
The number of notifications received during the year was 59 as compared with
57 for the previous year.
Of these, 56 were removed to the Isolation Hospital.
Infection appears to have been mainly due to case-to-case contact. Most of the
cases were of a very mild character. In some cases the rash was of fleeting duration;
in other cases there were very few signs in the throat.
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