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IN “Tyneside: the Social Facts”(Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Co-operative Printing Society, Ltd., 1940. Is.) Mr. D. M. Goodfellow gives the results of a session's work of a tutorial class organized by the Workers' Educational Association in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which shows the effects of the depression in Tyneside. A short summary is given of the death-rates from tuberculosis, pulmonary and non-pulmonary, in the Tyneside area which shows that the Tyneside districts in 1917 showed increases for the most part much greater than in corresponding districts throughout the country, while by 1921-25, the reduction in the incidence of tuberculosis was far less than in the whole country, except for one town; although the position improved by 1935-37, the improvement was appreciably less than in England and Wales as a whole. These high tuberculosis rates, in spite of a relatively high standard of public health services, much superior to that of the Welsh areas, is attributed to the effects of a false prosperity which reached its apex during the War of 1914-18 and weakened Tyneside's resistance in the long depression that followed, overcrowding and large families rendering the area specially vulnerable.
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Social Survey of Tyneside. Nature 146, 485 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146485b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146485b0