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Wanstead and Woodford 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wanstead and Woodford]
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Tuberculosis
The following table shows particulars of new cases of tuberculosis and of deaths from the disease in the Borough during 1961.
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | N on-Pulmonary | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 year | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1-5 years | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5-10 years | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10-15 years | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15-20 years | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 20-25 years | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 25-35 years | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 35-45 years | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 45-55 years | 6 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 55-65 years | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| 65 and over | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| TOTALS | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 14 | 2 | 1 | — | |||||
| 16 | 1 | |||||||
The 1 death represents a death rate of 0.02 per 1,000 of the population.
A comparative summary over the past 20 years for the Borough is
set out in the following table.
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