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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
Surbiton 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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TUBERCULOSIS
Under the Public Health Tuberculosis Regulations a register of all
notifications is kept and weekly returns of coses are sent to the County
Medica1 Officer. The continual movement of cases from one district to
another requires constant supervision so that particulars may be brought
up to date and represent a true record.
At the end of the year 420 persons were shown to be suffering from the disease and living within the district:-
| Pul. | Non.Pul. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | 211 | 43 | ||||||
| Females | 132 | 34 | ||||||
| NEW CASES | DEATHS | |||||||
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 year | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1 - 4 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | ' - | - | - | 1 |
| 5 - 14 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 15- 24 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| 25 - 34 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| 35 - 44 | 7 | 5 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | |
| 45-54 | 9 | " | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | |
| 55-64 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
| 65 and upwards | 4 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| TotaIs: | 42 | 30 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 1 |
The number of new coses as compared with the previous year is
Proximately the same.
Of the 83 cases tabulated above, 23 are coses transferred from
another districts.
The table shows an increase compered with last year of 7 pulmonary
cases of tuberculosis, and the non-pulmonary cases show a decrease of 2,
The deaths show a decrease of 6.
At the commencement of the year there were 415 cases of tuberculosis
on the register, and at the end of the year this figure had increased to
???
During the year 19 cases were notified as recovered from the
disease,38 Patients left the district, there were 20 deaths and 1 case
was notified as being non-tuberculosis.
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