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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 1928
[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 | ... | ... | 3 | 2 | ... | 1 | 5 | ... |
| 1 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 5 | 35 | 33 | 25 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| 10 | 8 | 20 | 12 | 6 | ... | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| 15 | 32 | 34 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 24 | 3 | 2 |
| 20 | 39 | 54 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 11 | 2 | |
| 25 | 59 | 58 | 7 | 3 | 40 | 27 | 2 | 1 |
| 35 | 52 | 37 | 6 | 2 | 32 | 22 | ... | 1 |
| 45 | 40 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 15 | ... | 1 |
| 65 | 16 | 12 | ... | 1 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 1 |
| 65 and upwards | 7 | 3 | ... | ... | 7 | 5 | ... | 1 |
| Totals | 293 | 271 | 88 | 49 | 165 | 124 | 29 | 26 |
Included in the above new cases are 16 pulmonary males, 14
pulmonary females, 10 non-pulmonary males and 8 non-pulmonary
females which were unnotified but were discovered from the returns
of the Registrar of Births and Deaths, showing- that 7.1
per cent, of the deaths registered as due to Tuberculosis had not
been notified during life. (This percentage is much less than last
year.)
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 fresh cases of Tuberculosis coming to my
knowledge was 701, of which 564 were pulmonary cases. The
deaths due to this disease numbered 344, giving a death rate of
1.1 per 1,000.
The death rate from respiratory Phthisis being 0.94, and from
other forms 0.17 per 1,000 of the population.
The Reports of the Tuberculosis Officer and of the Medical
Superintendent of Dagenham Sanatorium wiil be found on paees
92 to 102.
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