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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 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: DEATHS FROM PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.TABLE 40.Shewing the number of Patients who died in their own homes and the number who died away fromhome in Hospitals or other Institutions, 1936.

DEATHS FROM PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.

TABLE 40.

Shewing the number of Patients who died in their own homes and the number who died away from

home in Hospitals or other Institutions, 1936.

0-1-2-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-All Ages.
Males.Females.Total.
Number of patients who died at home----5343432111324
Number of patients who died in hospitals, etc.-1-11221182916317329102
-1-11724223220638442126

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The mortality rate was 0.81 per 1,000, as against 0.83 per 1,000 in
1935.
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 42.
Notification Register.
Pulmonary.
Non-Pulmonary.
Total Cases.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Number of cases of Tuberculosis
remaining at the
31st December, 1935,
on the Registers of Notifications
kept by the
Medical Officer of Health
of the Metropolitan
Borough
738
394
1132
198
173
371
1503
Number of cases removed
from the Register(s)
167
109
276
41
25
66
342
during the year by reason
inter alia of:—
(1) Withdrawal of notification
74
57
131
19
17
36
167
(2) Recovery from the
disease
9
8
17
12
7
19
36
(3) Deaths
84
42
126
4
5
9
135