Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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The sources from which information of these cases was obtained were as follows:—
Source of Information. | No. of Cases. | |
---|---|---|
Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |
Death Returns—From local Registrars | 6 | — |
—From Registrar-General | 1 | — |
Posthumous Notifications | 1 | — |
"Transfers" from other areas (other than transferable deaths) | 66 | 13 |
Other Sources | — | — |
Totals | 74 | 13 |
The number of deaths from tuberculosis and the death-rate in each of the past five years are given below:—
Year. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Total. | Death-rate. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1945 | 82 | 4 | 86 | .61 |
1916 | 91 | 15 | 106 | .63 |
1947 | 93 | 10 | 103 | .50 |
1948 | 99 | 4 | 103 | .59 |
1949 | 87 | 5 | 92 | .53 |
In the following table the deaths from tuberculous disease in the Borough since 1916 are shown grouped in periods of three years:—
Three-Year Periods. | Annual average number of deaths from Tuberculous Disease. | Percentage decrease on the period 1916-1918. |
---|---|---|
Per cent. | ||
1916-1918 | 363 | — |
1919-1921 | 261 | 28.1 |
1922-1924 | 249 | 21.4 |
1925-1927 | 209 | 42.4 |
1928-1930 | 208 | 42.7 |
1931-1933 | 185 | 49.0 |
1934-1936 | 154 | 57.6 |
1937-1939 | 127 | 65.0 |
1940-1942 | 123 | 66.1 |
1943-1945 | 106 | 70.8 |
1946-1948 | 104 | 71.3 |
1949 | 92 | 74.6 |