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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
Sutton and Cheam 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam]
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The following table shows the new cases and deaths in age groups.
| AGE PERIODS | NEW CASES | DEATHS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 15 | 12 | 14 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 25 | 8 | 6 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| 35 | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 45 | 4 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 55 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - |
| 65 and above | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| TOTALS | 30 | 31 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | - |
Notification of Tuberculosis
Respiratory forms of death - Five out of six cases were notified.
Other forms of death - None out of two cases was notified.
MASS RADIOGRAPHY
A Mass Radiography Unit visited the Borough on three
occasions during 1954. The Unit was stationed at Elmcroft
Pavilion, London Road, North Cheam, from 6th May 1954 to 28th
May 1954, at North Cheam Baptist Church Hall, Ridge Road, Sutton
Common, from 29th June 1954 to 9th July 1954 and at Sutton Public
Hall from 12th July 1954 to 30th July 1954.
A total of seven thousand two hundred and four persons were examined.
The final results were as follows.
| Total | X-Rayed | No. of cases of active Pulmonary Tuberculosis | No. of cases of arrested Pulmonary Tuberculosis | Non-TUberculous abnormalities | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| North Cheam | 1194 | 1822 | 3016 | - | - | 37 | 41 | 43 | 42 |
| Sutton Common | 222 | 320 | 542 | - | - | 16 | 19 | 11 | 11 |
| Sutton | 1538 | 2108 | 3646 | 3 | 5 | 82 | 98 | 56 | 47 |
| TOTAL | 2954 | 4250 | 7204 | 3 | 5 | 135 | 158 | 110 | 100 |
The incidence of active Pulmonary Tuberculosis was 1.1 per
thousand persons examined in the Borough in 1954, compared with
1.6 in 1953. The average incidence in the County of Surrey in
1954 was 1.2 per thousand persons examined, which compares with
1.7 in 1953. The figures suggest a continuing tendency for the
number of undetected cases to decline. It is difficult to make
deductions from single random samples of the population. In the
Sutton survey the incidence was 2.2 per thousand persons examined.
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