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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
Feltham 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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| Notified | 2 |
| Cases treated at home | 2 |
| Cases treated in hospital | — |
| Vision unimpaired | 2 |
| Total blindness | — |
| Death | — |
| New Cases | Deaths | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ago Periods | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 yr. | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1—5 years | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5—15 „ | 4 | 3 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 |
| 15—25 „ | 6 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 25—35 „ | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 35—45 „ | 2 | 4 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
| 45—65 „ | 7 | 3 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Over 65 „ | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 35 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | — | 1 |
Tuberculosis
Notifications of new cases of tuberculosis have
decreased, the figures being 62 for 1949 and 86 for 1948,
deaths from this cause also show a decrease, the figure
being 5; compared with 16. The overcrowded conditions
under which many people are living, resulting
from the shortage of houses, is almost certainly helping
to keep the numbers of new notifications at a comparatively
high figure, but it must also be remembered that
a number of these cases are mild ones which have been
detected at an early stage by the use of mass radiography.
The adequate housing of persons suffering from active
pulmonary tuberculosis and their families is essential if
increases in new cases of this disease are to be prevented.