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West Ham 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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From Table XXXIX. on page 114 it will be seen that, so far as
pulmonary tuberculosis was concerned, nine towns had lower rates.
So far as the death rate from other forms of tuberculosis was
concerned, the death rate for London was equal to that for West
Ham, and only four other towns had a lower rate than that of
West Ham. When account is taken of the fact that the area is
almost entirely industrial, these rates are not unsatisfactory. The
general epidemiology of the disease in relation to the country as
a whole is dealt with in another section.
Deaths at ages. The distribution of the 227 deaths,
according to age, and sex, and type of disease, is shown in Table
VI.
Table VI.
Tuberculosis : age distribution of deaths, 1937.
| Age (years) | Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | All Forms. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | Number. | Rate per 1,000 population at ages. | |
| 0- | 4 | - | - | 4 | 0.91 | |
| 1 | 1 | - | 7 | 2 | 10 | 0.57 |
| 5— | 1 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 0.08 |
| 10— | — | 1 | — | - | 1 | 0.04 |
| 15— | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 1.10 |
| 20— | 15 | 13 | — | 2 | 30 | 1.18 |
| 25— | 22 | 1 | — | - | 41 | 1.01 |
| 35- | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 0.89 |
| 45— | 28 | 9 | — | 1 | 38 | 1.34 |
| 55— | 2 | 7 | 1 | i | 34 | 1.63 |
| 65- | 6 | 2 | — | 2 | 10 | 0.69 |
| All ages | 12 | 76 | 11 | 13 | 227 | 0.87 |
Further particulars of the deaths from non-respiratory
tuberculosis are give in Table VII.
Deaths in wards. The actual deaths from different forms
of tuberculosis which took place in the different wards of the
borough, together with the ward death rates, are set out
in Table VIII.
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