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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
Southwark 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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DEATHS FROM PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.
TABLE 46.
Shewing the number of Patients who died in their own homes and the number who died away from
home in Hospitals or other Institutions. 1934.
| 0- | 1- | 2- | 5- | 15- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | 75- | All Ages. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Total. | ||||||||||||
| Number of patients who died at home | – | – | – | – | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | – | 24 | 18 | 42 |
| Number of patients who died in hospitals, etc. | – | – | – | 8 | 13 | 27 | 13 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 62 | 38 | 100 |
| – | – | – | 8 | 21 | 36 | 23 | 27 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 86 | 56 | 142 | |
The mortality rate was 0.89 per 1,000, as against 1.04 per 1,000 in
1933.
The following tables give, in tabular form, the number of cases of
Tuberculosis on the Medical Officer's Register; the number of new cases
coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, and the number
of deaths from Tuberculosis for the period under review.
TABLE 48.
Notification Register.
Pulmonary.
Non-Pulmonary.
Total Cases.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Males.
Females
Total.
Number of cases of Tuberculosis
remaining at the
31st December, 1934,
on the Registers of Notifications
kept by the
Medical Officer of Health
of the Metropolitan
Borough
804
450
1254
237
196
433
1687
Number of cases removed
155
114
269
39
34
73
342
from the Register(s)
during the year by reason
inter alia of:—
(1) Withdrawal of notification
68
51
119
22
22
44
163
(2) Recovery from the
disease
5
3
8
5
5
10
18
(3) Deaths
82
60
142
12
7
19
161