Tuberculosis : its casualties, causes and control : a report to the Sanitary Committee by the medical officer of health.

  • Newcastle upon Tyne (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Tuberculosis : its casualties, causes and control : a report to the Sanitary Committee by the medical officer of health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE 44 NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. DEATH RATES PER 1,000 POPULATION FROM THE “SEVEN CHIEF ZYMOTIC DISEASES” AND TUBERCULOUS DISEASES (ALL AGES) DURING THE 5 YEARS 1901-1905. 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904*| 1905* ‘*Seven Chief Zymotic Diseases ’”’ wees fo (all ages) ... ae a vs 1°6 Lt 1°5 1°3 Tuberculous Diseases (all ages) ... | 2°8 | 2:4 | 26 | 24 | 2:3 The average death rate of the city during the past five years from the “Seveu Chief Zymotic Diseases,” per 1,000 population, was 1°5, and from Tuberculous Diseases, 2°5. The above figures shew a marked reduction in the later as compared with the earlier years of the periods to which they respectively refer. This does not justify the assumption that Tuberculosis is diminishing, although the figures alone seem to indicate such a conclusion. The diminution in the number of these deaths is largely, if not entirely, the result of improved accuracy of diagnosis, and may therefore he only apparent and not actual. I.—THE DUTY OF THE SANITARY AUTHORITY AS TO THE CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSEs. In a circular recently issued to Sanitary Authorities and others by Sir Wm. Broadbent, M.D., Chairman of Council of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other Forms of Tuberculosis, attention 1s earnestly and forcibly called to the prevention of this disease as being a social and public question of vast national importance. The disease is contagious, and therefore pre- ventable. It is very costly to the nation, being a source of both direct and indirect loss in many ways, but perhaps in none more positively than as being a serious cause of pauperism. Tt * The boundary of the City was extended in Nevember, 1904. + Dr. Nathan Raw, of Liverpool, ascertained that out of 4,000 Consumptive paupers under his care, ‘‘ 60 per cent. became paupers because they were phthisical, and not phthisical because they were poor.”’