London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Surbiton 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
This page requires JavaScript
TUBERCULOSIS.
Under the Public Health Tuberculosis Regulations a register
of all notifications is kept and weekly returns of cases are sent
to the County Medical Officer. The continual movement of cases
from one district to another requires constant -supervision so that
oarticulars mav bo Drought uo to date'and represent a true record.
At the end of the year 362 persons were shown to be suffering from the disease and living within the district:-
| Pul. | Non-Pul. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | 154 | 39 | ||||||
| Females | 133 | 36 | ||||||
| 287 | 75 | |||||||
| KEY, CASES | DEATHS | |||||||
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 year | - | - | S .' | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1-4 | 1 | - | 6 | - | - | -. | - | - |
| 5-14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| 15 - 24 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 |
| 25 - 34 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | - | - |
| 35 - 44 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| 45 - 54 | 5 | - | 3 | 6 | 1 | |||
| 55 - 64 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| 65 and upwards | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Totals- | 40 | 29 | 17 | 10 | 12 | 12 | - | 3 |
As in the previous year Pulmonary Tuberculosis shows an
important increase, particularly at age groups 15 - 24 and 25 - 34,
but the number -of new cases is less than 1942.
War conditions, want of proper and efficient nourishment,
bad living conditions (overcrowding ooth in homes and in shelters)
are, no doubt,"a contributory cause.
The building of houses,in my opinion, should be greatly
accelerated.
-10 -