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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
West Ham 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Tuberculosis.
The following table sets out the number of notified cases of Tuberculosis and the number of deaths during the year at certain age periods, distinguishing separately the pulmonary and non-pulmonary forms, males and females:—
| AGE PERIODS. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary | Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 1 | 15 | 14 | 26 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 14 |
| 5 | 50 | 39 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | 37 | 36 | 16 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 15 | 57 | 51 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 21 | 2 | 2 |
| 20 | 51 | 54 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 22 | 1 | .. |
| 25 | 80 | 73 | 6 | 3 | 28 | 20 | 3 | .. |
| 35 | 62 | 52 | 3 | 8 | 47 | 19 | 2 | 2 |
| 45 | 47 | 31 | 4 | 2 | 35 | 13 | 2 | 1 |
| 55 | 23 | 13 | .. | 1 | 16 | 8 | .. | .. |
| 65 and upwards | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | .. | 2 |
| Totals | 432 | 371 | 85 | 79 | 192 | 117 | 33 | 32 |
Included in the above new cases are 19 pulmonary males,
10 pulmonary females, 9 non-pulmonary males, and 4 nonpulmonary
females, which were not notified but were discovered
from the returns of the Registrars of Births and
Deaths, etc., showing that 11.2 per cent. of the deaths
registered as due to Tuberculosis had not been notified
during life.
1 he total number of cases of Tuberculosis coming to the
knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year
was 967, of which 803 were pulmonary cases. The deaths
due to this disease numbered 374, giving a death rate of
1.18 per 1,000.
The death rate from respiratory Phthisis being 0.97 and
from other forms 0.21 per 1,000.