[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Clacton U.D.C.

  • Clacton-on-Sea (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1950
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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Clacton U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TOTAL CASES ON REGISTER AT END OF 1950 ... 135 The 135 cases of Tuljerculosis were notified as follows ; — Age groups in yeai*s Kespiratory Non-Respiratory Totals M. F. M. F. 1— 5 1 1 1 1 5—15 1 3 7 4 14 15—25 12 14 2 3 31 25—35 20 10 — 4 43 35—45 : 14 (5 1 3 24 45—55 7 - ' 3 2 12 55—(55 7 1 1 0 (55 ii]i\vai‘ils 1 1 — —- — 1 Totals 1 01 45 12 17 135 Ten deaths were caused by this disease, nine cases of pul-- nionary and one^of non-pulnionary Tuberculosis. This gives us a: death i-ale per million of the population of 425 which compares un-- favourahly with the figure for p]ngland and Wales which is 364, hid is an improvement on the figure of 564 for the previous year. The climate in Clacton is reputed to be beneficial to those- with chest complaints and, no doubt, this reputation attracts ai numlier of sufferers from Pulmonary Tuberculosis from less salu- brious parts of the Country. Ten new cases were notified during the year. One of the tragedies of this disease is that the greatest inci- dence occurs in the age group from fifteen to forty-five; the majority occurring within the twenty-five to thirty-five years group.