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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 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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issue of first birthday cards has continued. It will be seen from the
figures given above that children in the pre-school age group form
a very large percentage of the children immunised during the year.
Records of immunising injections given at the Clinics or by
local practitioners have been kept on cards similar to the standardised
record card suggested in the Ministry of Health Circular
194/45, dated 14th Novemlber, 1945.
TUBERCULOSIS.
During the year under review 232 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis
and 17 cases of non-pulmonary tuberculosis were notified
for the first time under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1930.
From the following table it will be seen that the number of cases of tuberculosis notified in Hackney declined fairly steadily from 1920 until 1941, when war-time circumstances commenced to affect the Borough's tuberculosis case rate:—
| Year. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|