[Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council
Date:
1931
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Credit: [Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ophthalmia Neonatorum—Tuberculosis. Notified CASES. Trea ted. Vision un¬ impaired V ision impaired Total Blind¬ ness. Deaths. At Home In Hospital 1924 109 89 20 107 1 • . . 1 1925 138 96 *42 135 1 1 1926 166 149 +17 162 3 1 1927 166 135 $31 162 3 1 1928 145 129 §16 143 ... ... 2 1929 193 170 !|23 190 ... 3 1930 148 130 **18 145 1 ... 2 1931 191 169 H22 | 186 L 1 4 * One case removed from district; result not known, t 12 In-Patients, 5 Out-Patients. X 13 „ 18 § 7 9 I! 14 „ 9 ** 17 „ 1 H 20 „ 2 Tuberculosis. At the end of the year there were 6,549 cases of all forms of tuberculosis on the registers of the district Medical Officers of Health, made up as follows:— Total Cases. Pulmonary. ]S ON -Pulmonary. M. F. Total. M. F. Total. 6549 2435 2184 4620 1020 909 1929 This indicates that there is one case of tuberculosis in every 108 persons, or just 9.2 per 1,000 of the population, and on reference to the mortality Tables which follow it will be found that approximately one death occurs amongst eleven cases in the year.
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