[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Penrith U.D.C.

  • Penrith (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Penrith U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following table gives the number of cases on the Tuberculosis Register at the end of 1958 1 Males* Females* Total, j Pulmonary *,, *,* 41 82 ! I Non-Pulmonary * * * 10 12 22 1 - i 1 All forms of 1 Tuberculosis :- 51 ! 53 J 104 I At the end of 1957 there were 97 cases of Tuberculosis on the Register* Eleven new cases were notified during 1958 and there were four inward transfers of patients from other districts* Three patients left Penrith and there was one ^^^\^*ter patients recovered from T,B. and v/erc removed from the Below is a table giving the number of deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis in the area since 1948 t 1 • Pulmonarv* Non-Pulmonary, Total, ! Year : M. P. M* : P. . 1949 I 3 1 M ! ; ♦ 4 i 1950 i 1 4 mm j 5 i i 1951 ! 2 • * : 2 1 ! 1952 i - - i - 1 1953 i 1 - 1 ; i 1954 i - _ 1 - I 1955 1 1 _ 1 ! j 1956 i - i 1957 ! i - - ! 1958 1 1 _ I — • '' 1 Tuberculosis throughout the Country is declining. In England and V/ales during 1945» 23>959 persons died of Tuberculosis, In 1958 the total deaths for this disease was 4>480, Better housing, bettor nutrition and the provision of none infected milk have all played a part in the reduction but the rapid fall in the last ten years is due essentially to specific anti¬ tuberculosis drugs, The Mass Radiography Service has played an important part as cases are now discovered in the early stages of disease and are comparatively easily cured those days* In Penrith during 1958, 2461 persons were X-Rayed, and three new cases were discovered by this means, I give the usual particulars of B*C,G. vaccination carried out during the year. 6*.