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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
Carshalton 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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Tuberculosis.
New cases and mortality during 1925.
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -_ |
| 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 5 | — | — | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 15 | 1 | — | — | 1 | - | - | - | — |
| 20 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
| 25 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 35 | 1 | - | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| 45 | 2 | — | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| 55 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| 65 & above | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 2 | — |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
The 8 deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis represent an annual deathrate
of 0-51 per 1,000 of the estimated nett population, as against an average
rate of 0'63 for the ten years 1916—1925. There were 2 deaths from
Tuberculous Meningitis and 2 from Tuberculous Peritonitis.
The following Table shows the mean population, the number of cases notified, and the number of deaths from certain infectious diseases in each quinquennium during the 50 years from 1876 to 1925 :—
| Period. | Mean Population. | Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | |||
| 1876— | 6680 | 15 | 28 | 38 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 71 | |
| 1881— | 7230 | 245 | 5 | 7 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 60 | |
| 1886— | 7970 | 80 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | 13 | 14 | 71 | |
| 1891— | 8770 | 148 | 48 | 14 | - | 19 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 62 | |
| 1896— | 9600 | 126 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 52 | |
| 1301— | 10900 | 115 | 12 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 42 | |
| 1906— | 12550 | 123 | 58 | 3 | 1 | 7 | — | 9 | 7 | 49 | |
| 1911— | 13800 | 119 | 78 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 53 | |
| 1916— | 13000 | 98 | 63 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 53 | ||
| 1925— | 15000 | 106 | 49 | 9 | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 47 | |
The number of patients in the Mental Hospitals and the cases and
deaths among them are excluded from these figures.
Notification of infectious disease was voluntary until 1889, and the
figures representing the number of cases up to that year are, therefore,
incomplete.