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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 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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Table: Dick Test, 1934.

Dick Test, 1934.

Number of nurses tested58
Number which proved positive17
Rate per cent. of positives29
Number immunised13

Table: Disinfecting Station, 1934.

Disinfecting Station, 1934.

Number of articles removed from infected homes for disinfection18965
Number of hospital articles disinfected27876
Total46841

Table: Tuberculosis.The following table sets out the number of cases of Tuberculosis notified, and the number of deaths during the year at certain age periods.

Tuberculosis.

The following table sets out the number of cases of Tuberculosis notified, 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.
0-........................
1-3255......63
5-17141562252
15-4967129374942
25-4041103271813
35-29203214812
45-431611409......
55-25211203......
65 and upwards62293......
Totals2111634927149921712

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Included in the above new cases are 5 pulmonary males, 7
pulmonary females, and 3 non-pulmonary males, and 2 nonpulmonary
females, which are unnotified, but were discovered
from the returns of the Registrars of Births and Deaths, showing
that 6.6 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 inter-current disease.
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