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During the past year the Medical Officers of Health of
all towns having populations exceeding 100,000 prepared
from their death returns the number of deaths from all forms
of Tuberculosis, bcth male and female, which had occurred
during the past 10 years.
The various returns were summarised by the Medical
Officer of Health of Sheffield, who had suggested the preparation
of these figures, and the results were published in the
"Journal of Public Health, together with the comments and
explanations of each Medical Officer on the statistics of his
own District.
The main features were reported to the Public Health
Committee in a report made on 4th October, igoq.
The Report, as follows, is reproduced here for purpose of
reference:—
I beg to present the following statistics dealing with the
local incidence of Tuberculosis.
The tables give the death-rates from Tuberculosis of the
Lungs per million of population both for males and females,
and also the death-rates from other forms of Tuberculosis for
males and females, and also for children under five years
of age.
The figures have been prepared by the Medical Officers
of Health of the respective districts, and should prove of value
in indicating in what direction efforts are chiefly required to
combat this disease.
Any very marked departure from the standard of England
and Wales as a whole, calling for local explanation and
consideration of the factors probably concerned, whether due
to housing, industrial conditions, age and sex distribution of
population, or soil, etc.