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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
Hackney 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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51
Alcoholism.
Alcoholism.—During the year under consideration there were
no deaths from alcoholic poisoning; there were, however, 12
deaths registered as due to cirrhosis of the liver, a condition
regarded, as a rule, to be due to excessive indulgence in alcohol,
extending over lengthy periods.
TUBERCULOSIS.
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. - | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | - | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 7 | - | - | - | 1 |
| 10 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 15 | 11 | 23 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 |
| 20 | 22 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 1 | 1 |
| 25 | 48 | 51 | 3 | 6 | 25 | 26 | 2 | 1 |
| 35 | 49 | 34 | - | - | 28 | 22 | 2 | 1 |
| 45 | 36 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 14 | 3 | 1 |
| 55 | 19 | 10 | 2 | — | 20 | 4 | 1 | - |
| 65 and upwards | 5 | 7 | 1 | - | 6 | 5 | 1 22 | 1 |
| Totals | 207 | 180 | 47 | 42 | 121 | 95 | 18 | |
During 1923, 476 primary notifications of tuberculosis were
received, details of which are given on page 54 of this Report.
Bacteriological examination of sputa from 406 cases was made
by the Council's Bacteriologist during the same period. In 51
of these examinations the specific organism of the disease was
discovered, and in the remainder the result was negative.
The number of deaths from tuberculous disease in Hackney
during 1923, was 256, an increase of 18 upon the deaths during
1922.