Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London for the year 1920
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Age-periods | Notifications on Form A. | Notifications on Form B. † | Number of Notifications on Form C. | |||||||||||||||||
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Number of Primary Notifications.* | Total Notifications on Form A. | Number of Primary Notifications.* | Total Notifications on Form B. | Poor Law Institutions. | Sanatoria. | |||||||||||||||
0 to 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 55 | 55 to 65 | 65 and upwards | Total Primary Notifications. | Under 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 16 | Total Primary Notifications. | |||||
Pulmonary Males | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | — | 19 | 23 | — | — | — | Nil. | Nil. | Nil. | 9 |
„ Females | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 10 | 22 | — | — | — | „ | „ | „ | 7 |
Non pulmonary Males | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | „ | „ | „ | — |
„ „ Females | — | — | — | —- | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | „ | „ | „ | 1 |
Col. (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (13) | (14) | (15) | (16) | (17) | (18) | (19) | (20) | (21) |
Patients notified as suffering from both pulmonary and non-pulmonary disease have been included among the "pulmonary" returns only.
All notifications on Form D have been disregarded in preparing this return.
* Primary notifications relate to patients who have not previously been notified in this or former years, either on Form A or on Form B, in the area to which the return relates. Any
additional notification of a case which has been previously notified in the area is regarded as duplicate. (Note.—No primary notifications should be made on Form (C.)
† A School Medical Inspector, or the Medical Officer of Health of a county, county borough, or other district, if acting as a School Medical Inspector, is required to notify on Form B all cases of
tuberculosis discovered in the course of inspection of children attending public elementary schools whether or not these have previously been notified.
Cols. 2-13. Only those cases which have been notified for the first time during the year on Form A in the area concerned, and which have never previously been notified in the area, either
on Form A or on Form B, have been included in these columns.
Col. 14. The object of this column is to show the extent to which duplicate notification of the same case occurs on Form A, and all notifications on Form A, whether duplicate or not, are
included in this column.
Cols. 15-18. Only those cases which have been notified for the first time during the year on Form B in the area concerned, and which have never previously been 'notified in the area, either on
Form A or on Form B, have been included in these columns.
Col. 19. All notifications which have been made during the year on Form B in the area concerned, whether the. cases have previously been notified in the area, or not, either on Form A or
on Form B, have been included in this column.
Col. 21. Only notifications on Form C made by the Medical Officers of Sanatoria, as defined in the Tuberculosis Regulations, have been entered in this column.