[Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, Worcester City.

  • Worcester (England). City Council.
Date:
1917
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Credit: [Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, Worcester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IO in housing conditions, have necessarily been much curtailet and there has been in the City a tendency towards ove. crowding, partly for reasons of economy, and partly frot persons coming to work in the City temporarily an becoming lodgers in a house already fully occupied. There were 130 notifications received during the yea Two of these, both Pulmonary, were withdrawn. Pulmonary Non-Pulmonar Notifications, 1917 ... 102 26 ,, 1916 ... 86 27 » I9I5 ••• 85 37 ,, 1914 • • • • • • 116 46 ,, i9x3 133 27 ,, 1912 ... ... 157 — Pulmonary Tuberculosis.—Of the 102 cases, 55 wet males and 47 females. Of the 55 males, 13 were discharge soldiers, and two discharged sailors ; most of these wet advanced cases. These 15 cases, substracted from 10: give a number just equal to the figures for 1916 and 191 (see table above). That a great many of the patients were in an advance stage of the disease when notified is shewn in the followin table :— Died before Number Dec. 31st, 191 Under 10 years of age ... 13 2 From 10 to 25 years of age 28 11 From 25 to 45 years of age 55 7 Over 45 years of age 6 102 6 26 26
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