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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Fulham 1922

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1922

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will be found classified according to age and ward. The
question of the notification of tuberculosis occupied
considerable attention during the year, and it was felt
by some members of the Council that general practitioners
were not notifying cases of this disease as early
and as carefully as they might do. Below I give
the result of an inquiry made into the figures for
notifications and deaths from this disease during the
year:-
Mortality from Tuberculosis.
Respiratory System—
163 deaths 90 males, 73 females.
Death rate 1.02 per 1,000, being 0.6 higher than
1921.
137 notified (84-0 per cent.), 26 not notified (16 per cent.)
of whom 10, or 38.4 per cent, died in institutions.
Other Tuberculous Diseases—
33 deaths 11 males. 22 females (including 12 deaths
from disseminated tuberculosis).
Death Rate 0.2 per 1,000.
22 notified (66.6 per cent.), 11 not notified (33.3 per cent.)
of whom 5, or 45.4 per cent, died in institutions.

Table: Period between Primary Notification and Death.

Period between Primary Notification and Death.

Respiratory System—
Under 1 month21 (15.3 per cent.).
1-3 months14 (10.2 per cent.).
3-6 „24 (17.5 per cent.).
6-12 „29 (21.2 per cent.).
1-2 years20 (14.6 per cent.).
Over 2 years29 (21.2 per cent.).
Other Tuberculous Diseases—
Under 1 month17 (77.4 per cent.), including 4 disseminated tuberculosis.
1-3 months1 (4.5 per cent.), including 1 disseminated tuberculosis.
3-6 „Nil.
6-12 „1 (4.5 per cent.), including 1 disseminated tuberculosis.
1-2 years1 (4.5 per cent.), including 1 disseminated tuberculosis.
Over 2 years2 (9.1 per cent.), including 2 disseminated tuberculosis.