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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 1930
[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. | Nonpulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Nonpulmonary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0-1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| 1-4 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 6-9 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 14 | 1 | ... | 3 | 5 |
| 10-14 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ... |
| 15-19 | 32 | 38 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 26 | 4 | 2 |
| 20-24 | 39 | 52 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 24 | 2 | 2 |
| 25-34 | 74 | 70 | 8 | 6 | 45 | 35 | 2 | 3 |
| 35-44 | 44 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 19 | ... | 2 |
| 45-54 | 55 | 22 | ... | ... | 35 | 23 | ... | 1 |
| 55-04 | 23 | 13 | 1 | ... | 19 | 11 | ... | 1 |
| 65 and upwards | 3 | 4 | ... | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | ... |
| Totals | 292 | 265 | 75 | 63 | 167 | 143 | 25 | 21 |
Included in the above new cases are 22 pulmonary males, 19
pulmonary females, 8 non-pulmonary males, and 9 non-pulmonary
females, which were unnotified, but were discovered from the
returns of the Registrar of Births and Deaths, showing that 13.0
per cent, of the deaths registered as due to Tuberculosis had not
been notified durine life.
The following table sets out the percentage of deaths from tuberculosis (not notified during life) for the years 1923-1930 inclusive :—
| 1923 | 17.0 | 1927 | 12.03 |
| 1924 | 10.5 | 1928 | 7.1 |
| 1925 | 11.2 | 1929 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 12.8 | 1930 | 13.0 |
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 695, of which 557 were pulmonary cases. The
deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis numbered 356, giving a
death rate of 1.1 per 1,000.
The death rate from respiratory Phthisis being 1.0, and from
other forms 0.1 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
107-120.
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