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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 1926
[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. | |
| 1 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 3 | .. | 11 | 4 |
| 6 | 49 | 36 | 30 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 |
| 10 | 27 | 29 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 |
| 15 | 29 | 36 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 17 | 2 | 4 |
| 20 | 29 | 40 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 22 | .. | .. |
| 25 | 71 | 58 | 4 | 4 | 42 | 37 | 2 | 1 |
| 35 | 49 | 44 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 20 | 2 | 1 |
| 45 | 62 | 33 | 1 | 2 | 35 | 23 | .. | .. |
| 55 | 23 | 11 | .. | 0 | 28 | 3 | 1 | .. |
| 65 and upwards | 3 | 4 | .. | 0 | 4 | 4 | .. | .. |
| Totals | 354 | 305 | 77 | 58 | 172 | 129 | 35 | 25 |
Included in the above new cases are 13 pulmonary males,
10 pulmonary females, 2 non-pulmonary males and 3 nonpulmonary
females which were unnotified but were discovered
from the returns of the Registrar of Births and Deaths,
showing that 12.8 per cent, of the deaths registered as due to
Tuberculosis had not been notified during life.
In this connection many deaths notified as having been
due to Tuberculosis are frequently so notified because the case
had at some time or other suffered from this complaint,
the actual cause of death often being due to some intercurrent
disease.
The total number of cases of Tuberculosis coming to
my knowledge during the year was 794, of which 659 were
pulmonary cases. The deaths due to this disease numbered
361, giving a death rate of 1.14 per 1,000.
The death rate from respiratory Phthisis being 0.95, and
from other forms 0.18 per 1,000 of the population.
The Reports of the Tuberculosis Officer and of the
Medical Superintendent of Dagenham Sanatorium will be
found on pages 75-81 and 82-84.