[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough.

  • Peterborough (England). County Council.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Two deaths are attributable to non-respiratory tuberculosis, compared with )ne in 1957. Deaths from respiratory tuberculosis (England and Wales) have fallen to 000 a year. Ten years ago (1948) the figure was 19,088, and sixty years ago >,000 people were dying every year from some form of tuberculosis. However, as I pointed out in my Report for last year, although tuber- losis is being cured it is not being eliminated. Cases of tuberculosis (all forms) i clinic registers at the end of 1957 totalled 351,768 — an increase of 556 on e previous year. In recent years there has been a preponderance of tuberculosis among lerly males. Among the notifications of respiratory tuberculosis during 1957 sre were 17,562 males, of whom 7,856 were over 45. In 1958, eight of the 22 males notified in this County were over 45. Half of the deaths from respiratory tuberculosis in England and Wales in 58 occurred in males over 55. We cannot afford to be complacent while the fact remains that seven in ^ry thousand of the population of England and Wales suffer from :)erculosis, and the number of new notifications each week continues to be lh. > I append a Table in relation to respiratory tuberculosis showing the nber of notifications and deaths in the County during the last 20 years, lI the incidence of deaths to new notifications:— ”ear New Notifications Deaths Percentage of Deaths to Notifications 939 24 24 100.0 940 25 8 32.0 941 31 18 58.0 1942 43 22 51.1 1343 42 21 50.0 944 43 11 25.8 945 46 20 43.4 1946 43 23 53.4 >47 58 15 25.8 348 28 19 67.8 >49 42 10 23.8 >50 73 10 13.7 >51 58 14 24.3 >52 ■ 84 9 10.7 >53 53 4 7.5 >54 77 5 6.5 55 33 10 30.3 56 35 5 14.3 57 29 2 6.9 58 27 5 18.5