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Hackney 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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51
Alcoholism.
Alcoholism.—During the year under consideration there were not
any deaths from alcoholic poisoning. There were, however, nine
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
lenethv oeriods.
TUBERCULOSIS.
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulinonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0- 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 |
| 1- 5 | ... | ... | 4 | 3 | ... | ... | 3 | 3 |
| 5-10 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| 10-15 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | ... | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 15-20 | 12 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 2 |
| 20-25 | 23 | 28 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 1 |
| 25-35 | 34 | 38 | 5 | 5 | 26 | 15 | 2 | 3 |
| 35-45 | 26 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 1 | 2 |
| 45-55 | 34 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 38 | 11 | 1 | 1 |
| 55-65 | 14 | 7 | ... | ... | 23 | 8 | ... | 1 |
| 65 and upwards | 4 | 4 | ... | ... | 3 | 6 | ... | ... |
| 161 | 133 | 42 | 37 | 124 | 81 | 15 | 18 | |
During 1929, 363 primary notifications of tuberculosis were
received, details of which are given on page 52 of this Report.
Bacteriological examination of sputa from 399 cases was made by the
Council's Bacteriologists during the same period. In 60 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 1929 was 238, an increase of 54 upon the deaths during 1928.
Ihese deaths are classified as follows:—
Pulmonary tuberculosis 205
General tuberculosis 2
Tuberculous meningitis 13
Tuberculous peritonitis 3
Tubercle of other organs 15
238
1 his number of deaths gives an annual mortality of 1-11 per
1,000 inhabitants.