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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Number of swabs examined for the Invalid and Crippled Children's Society:—
| Positive results | Per cent. positive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Faucial | 76 | 4 | 5.3 |
| Nasal | 70 | 5 | 7.1 |
| Aural | 2 | – | – |
| Total | 148 | 9 | 6.0 |
| Increase over 1932 | 100 | 7 | |
| Widal reactions | 2 | – | – |
| Total number of examinations | 2977 | 236 | 7.9 |
| Increase over 1932 | 1063 | 76 |
| Number of articles removed from infected homes for disinfection | 16423 |
| Number of hospital articles disinfected | 11071 |
| Total | 27494 |
The following table sets out the number of cases of Tuberculosis and the number of deaths during the year at certain age periods.
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 3 | 8 | 8 | ... | 3 | |||
| 14 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| 11 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 33 | 38 | 2 | 2 | |
| 24 | 24 | 6 | 6 | 24 | 12 | 1 | 1 | |
| 38 | 43 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 13 | ... | ||
| 65 | 40 | 6 | 30 | 11 | ... | 1 | ||
| 42 | 23 | 3 | 3 | 31 | 16 | 3 | ... | |
| 40 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 9 | ... | ||
| 55-64 | 28 | 15 | 10 | ... | 1 | ... | ||
| 12 | 4 | ... | ... | 2 | 3 | ... | ||
| Totals | 280 | 182 | 52 | 49 | 175 | 107 | 17 | 14 |