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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 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Details of the notified cases are as follows:-
| Age Groups | Primary notifications | Non primary notifications | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non pulmonary | |||||
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| 0 - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2 - | 6 | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 5 - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 10 - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
| 15 - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 20 - | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 25 - | 15 | 11 | - | - | 9 | 6 | - | - |
| 35 - | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | - |
| 45 - | 5 | 2 | - | - | 7 | 1 | - | - |
| 55 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 65 - | 6 | - | - | 2 | 4 | - | - | 1 |
| 75 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | 57 | 35 | 6 | 11 | 31 | 15 | 2 | 2 |
Primary notifications relate to persons who had not been previously
notified in the area of any authority. The sources of information of the 50
non primary cases were:
"Transfers" from other areas 47
Posthumous notification 3
In addition 16 other persons on the Tuberculosis Register were certified
as dying from other causes.
The Department's Tuberculosis Register at 1st January and 31st December showed the following position
| Pulmonary | Non pulmonary | Totals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| On Register at 1st January | 793 | 615 | 80 | 94 | 873 | 709 |
| Add Notifications | 57 | 35 | 6 | 11 | 63 | 46 |
| Transfers from other areas etc. | 31 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 33 | 17 |
| Returned to Hackney | 13 | 11 | ~ | - | 13 | 11 |
| Deduct Deaths | 25 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 5 | |
| Left the Borough | 67 | 46 | 7 | 2 | 74 | 48 |
| Recovered | 52 | 33 | 4 | 3 | 56 | 36 |
| Diagnosis not confirmed | - | 5 | - | - | 5 | |
| From 'Non pulmonary' to 'Pulmonary * | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| On Register at 31st December | 750 | 589 | 77 | 100 | 827 | 689 |
MILLFIELDS DISINFECTING STATION
The Council s Disinfecting and Cleansing Station in Millfields Road
provides the following facilities:
SCABIES AND VERMINOUS CONDITIONS. Treatment of these conditions is carried out in the cleansing section of the Station, and the following cases were dealt with:-
| Scabies | Head and body lice | Cleansing Baths | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ' Cases | Treatments | Contacts (Preventive treatments) | Cases | Treat ments | Cases | Treatments | |
| Children under 5 years | 38 | 45 | 18 | 34 | 34 | 1 | 1 |
| Children over 5 years | 2 | 2 | – | 2 | 2 | – | – |
| | Adults | 71 | 78 | 4 | 33 | 37 | 7 | 8 |
| Totals | 111 | 125 | 22 | 69 | 73 | 8 | 9 |