[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council.
- Nottinghamshire County Council
- Date:
- 1947
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Afler-Care. The work of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Association for the Prevention of Consumption, who carry out after-care work on behalf of the County Council, receiving a grant at the rate of £200 per annum, has been fully described in previous Annual Reports. The number of cases who applied or were referred to the Association during the year 1947 was 120. New Cases and Mortality. The number of new cases recorded in the Registers of the Medical Officers of Health of the County Districts and the number of deaths due to Tuberculosis according to the Registrar-General’s statistics during the year are given in the following table :— Tuberculosis. New Cases and Mortality during 1947. New Cases* Deaths Age Periods Pulmonary Non - Pulmonary Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 0—1 1 4 — 1 3 1—5 4 ] 12 8 1 1 6 7 5—15 17 17 12 21 _ 1 2 4 15—45 193 154 16 19 61 70 9 13 45—65 45 18 4 2 46 9 4 1 65 and over 12 0 2 12 6 — T Totals 272 196 48 1 52 121 87 24 26 •Recorded in the Registers of Medical Officers of Health of County Districts. The following table shows the incidence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis over the past eight years :— Pulmonary Tuberculosis. New Cases. Year No. OF New Cases included in Annual Return to Ministry of Health. Formal notification Not notified before death Total 1,000 of population 1940 379 24 403 0-83 1941 437 28 466 0-96 1942 393 22 416 0*84 1943 369 28 397 0-84 1944 388 16 404 0-86 1945 332 23 355 0-75 1946 422 28 450 , 0-91 1947 431 27 458 0-91](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29925290_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
