[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Sheffield City.

  • Sheffield (England). City Council.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Sheffield City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS. Report by H. Midgley Turner. M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H., Clinical Tuberculosis Officer and Medical Superintendent of City Sanatoria. ]\lEDic.A.r. Staff ;— Clinical Tuberculosis Officer and Medical Superintendent of the City Sanatoria. M- Midgley Turner,M.U., M.R.C.P., D.P.H. Assistant Tuberculosis Officers .. J. S. Craig, M.B., Ch.B. H. G. Grace, m.B., Ch.B. AV. Dornan, M.B., Ch.B. J. Urquhart, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H. D. H. Anderson, m.B., B.Ch. H. D. AIcGorry, B.A., M.B.. Ch.B., D.P.H. The number of notifications of Tuberculosis of the Lung received during 1937 was 902 and Other Forms of Tuberculosis 207, giving an incidence rate per 1,000 of the impulation of 1‘74 for Tuberculosis of the Lung and 0-40 for Other Foi’ms of Tuberculosis. The number of deaths from Tuberculosis of the Lung of Sheffield residents occuiiing in the City during the year was 349, which is equal to 38-69 per cent.'of the notifications received. To this number must be added 6 deaths of Sheffield residents occurring outside the City. The Death-rate for Tuberculosis of the Lung is 0-685 per 1,000 of the population and for Other Forms of Tuberculosis is 0-114 giving a total Death-rate for the City for All Forms of Tuberculosis of 0-799. This compares with a Death-rate 0-584 for Pulmonary Tuberculosis and 0-695 for All Forms of Tuberculosis, for Lngland and Wales. It will be recalled that the Tuberculosis Death-Rate in 1936 showed a tremendous fall. Part of this fall was due to a survival of patients through the Autumn and Winter of 1936 into the commencement of 1937. This factor, together with an Influenza epidemic in the first Quarter of 1937 explains the marked upward fluctuation of the Death-rate for 1937. There is every reason to expect a continuation of the domiward trend of the Tuberculosis Death-rate in the year 1938. Table XLVI. shows the number of new eases notified, deaths and non-notified deaths at the various age periods. TABLE XLVI. Age-periods TUBERCULOSIS Notifications (New Cases) Dea ths * Non-notif« id Deaths Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary Pulmc mary Non-Pul monary Pulmc )nary Non-Pul monary M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. — 1 1 3 6 1 3 4 _ _ — 3 - 5 13 16 26 15 — — 8 3 — *~ — — -10 89 85 37 29 — — 2 3 — — — -15 31 38 14 17 •—• 3 2 2 — — 1 1 -20 51 74 6 11 7 12 1 8 — — — 2 -25 45 65 5 7 20 34 1 4 1 — 1 1 -35 72 77 9 6 40 38 6 3 1 — 2 2 -45 59 23 2 4 45 27 — 3 1 1 — 2 -55 68 15 3 2 37 17 1 1 — — — 1 -65 55 8 1 2 50 8 — 2 4 — — 1 +65 13 4 1 1 12 4 2 — 2 — 1 Totals ... 496 406 107 100 212 143 26 33 9 1 5 13 * Included in figures of Notifications (New Cases) above.