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Hackney 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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18
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
There was a total of 40 cases notified to the Department; 39 were associated
with hospital confinement and one case with a home confinement; 30 of the
total number of cases related to Hackney residents or mothers.
No. of cases notified over the previous four years:-
1961 - 153
1962 - 100
1963 - 39
1964 - 58
TUBERCULOSIS
Of the 203 notifications of Tuberculosis received, 185 related to pulmonary
infection and 18 to non-pulmonary. The attack rate per thousand of the
population for all forms of Tuberculosis notified for the first time (134 new
cases) was 0.53 (as compared with 0.66 in 1964 and 0.59 in 1963).
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 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2 - | 1 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| 10 - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 15 - | 5 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - |
| 20 - | 11 | 6 | - | - | 4 | 1 | - | 2 |
| 25 - | 18 | 10 | 4 | - | 14 | 7 | - | - |
| 35 - | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 1 | - | - |
| 45 - | 11 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| 55 - | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 |
| 65 - | 3 | 2 | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| 75 - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Totals | 83 | 38 | 9 | 4 | 45 | 19 | 1 | 4 |
Primary notifications relate to persons who had not been previously notified
in the area of any authority. The sources of information of the 69 non-primary
cases were:-
"Transfers" from other areas 68
Posthumous notification 1
In addition 28 other persons on the Tuberculosis register were certified
as dying from other causes.
The Department's Tuberculosis Register showed the following position:-
| Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary | Totals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| On Register at 1st January | 1,337 | 1,026 | 169 | 166 | 1,506 | 1,192 |
| Add:- | ||||||
| Notifications | 84 | 38 | 9 | 4 | 93 | 42 |
| Transfers from other areas, etc. | 43 | 18 | - | 5 | 43 | 23 |
| Returned to Hackney | 12 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 12 |
| Deduct:- | ||||||
| Deaths | 40 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 41 | 11 |
| Left the Borough | 89 | 60 | 14 | 11 | 103 | 71 |
| Recovered | 75 | 65 | 7 | 9 | 82 | 74 |
| Diagnosis not confirmed | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| From 'Non-pulmonary' to 'Pulmonary' | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| On Register at 31st December | 1, 271 | 959 | 157 | 151 | 1,428 | 1,110 |