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 | 3 | 2 |
—From Registrar-General | 2 | 4 |
Posthumous Notifications | 2 | — |
"Transfers" from other areas (other than transferable deaths) | 57 | 5 |
Other Sources | — | — |
Totals | 64 | 11 |
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. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1947 | 93 | 10 | 103 | .50 |
1948 | 99 | 4 | 103 | .59 |
1949 | 87 | 5 | 92 | .53 |
1950 | 55 | 8 | 63 | .37 |
1951 | 56 | 13 | 69 | .40 |
The death rates for England and Wales, and London, were
0.31 and 0.38 respectively.
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 |
1949-1951 | 75 | 79.43 |