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West Ham 1937

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

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the rapidity with which death took place. It is unwise to dogmatize
on figures for a single year, but it is possible that two factors
may be responsible: (a) asocial conditions, and (b) a failure on the
part of the patients to take full advantage of the excellent facilities
for diagnosis and treatment which are offered by the local
authority. Of the relationship between social conditions and tuberculosis
I do not intend to speak in this report. If the second factor

Table: Table VIII.T uberculosis. Deaths in wards and death ratesPER 1,000 WARD POPULATION.

Table VIII.

T uberculosis. Deaths in wards and death rates

PER 1,000 WARD POPULATION.

Ward.Pulmonary.Non-pulmonary.All forms.
DeathsDeath-rate.Deaths.Death-rate.DeathsDeath-rate.
1. New Town11O.7210.06120.78
2. Forest Gate110.672O.1213O.79
3. High Street130.8410.06140.90
4. Broadway100.8010.08110.88
5. Park .. ..100.742O.14120.89
6. Upton90.6110.07IO0.68
7. Plashet Road90.722O.15110.87
8. West Ham120.8520.14!40.99
9. Plaistow140.802O.11160.91
10. Bemersyde80.7010.0890.78
11. Canning Town and Grange230.9420.08251.02
12. Hudsons0.9410.06180.99
13. Ordnance120.7110.05130.77
14. Beckton Road120.6910.05130.74
15. Tidal Basin200.9720.09221.06
16. Custom House and Silvertown12O.6620.11140.77
Whole borough2030.78240.090.87

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is responsible, even in part, every effort should be made to induce
the sufferers to improve their condition by constant attention to
the recommendations which are made to them by the Council's
specialists in tuberculosis work.
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