[Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1960
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Credit: [Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TUBERCULOSIS STATISTICS The number of cases on the register at the end of i960 was 2,979, 35 compared with 3,441 at the end of 1959, a decrease of 462. Notifications.—-During the year 360 cases of respiratory tuber¬ culosis (of which 36 were transfers from other areas) and 37 non- respiratory (of which 2 were transfers from other areas) were notified, making a total of 397 cases of which 38 were transfers. Compared with the previous year there was a decrease of 20 in the respiratory notifications and a decrease of 2 in the non-respiratory notifications. Compared with the average of the previous five years there was a decrease of 63 in the respiratory notifications and a decrease of 13 in the non-respiratory notifications. The case-rate of respiratory tuberculosis was 0-70, of non- respiratory 0-07 and of all forms of the disease o • 77 as compared with 0-74, 0-08 and 0-82 respectively for the previous year. Of the total cases of respiratory tuberculosis, 11-9 per cent, were children under the age of 15 years, 14-2 per cent, persons between 15 and 25 years and 73-9 per cent, were in the remaining age groups. The corresponding figures for the previous year weie 9-2 per cent. 17-6 per cent, and 73-2 per cent, respectively. With regard to the non-respiratory type of disease, 21-6 per cent, were children under 15 years and 78-4 per cent, were persons over 15 years. The corresponding figures for the previous year were 33.3 per cent, and 66-j per cent, respectively. Of the total cases, 251 were notified by the Senior Chest Physician, 19 were notified by general medical practitioners, 89 came from hospitals and 38 were transfers from other areas. The number of cases of respiratory tuberculosis not heard of until time of death was 15 (including 4 posthumous notifications) and the number of non-respiratory 1, making a total of 16, a decrease of 6 as compared with the figure for the previous year. Out of a total of 41 deaths from all forms of tuberculosis, one died within 7 days of notification and 3 died between 28 days and 12 months after notification.