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Holborn 1926
Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health
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The following table gives the number of new cases of tuberculosis and deaths from the disease in the Borough during 1926 in the form required by the Ministry of Health:—
| Age periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — |
| 1 | — | — | 1 | 3 | — | — | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 1 | _ | 2 | 3 | - | - | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | _ | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | - | — | — |
| 15 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | — | 2 | — | — |
| 20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | — | 1 |
| 25 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | — | — |
| 35 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | 1 |
| 45 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| 55 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 4 | 3 | — | — |
| 65 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 31 | 23 | 9 | 14 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 4 | |
The initiation of the Tuberculosis Care Committee as a local institution and the administrative change whereby all correspondence concerning tuberculous patients is sent to the Borough Medical Officer of Health have proved beneficial; the knowledge of the local Public Health Staff of the patients is increased in a natural and easy way and the interest in the work encouraged.
| Total number of cases on the Register of Tuberculosis in the Borough on the 31st December, 1926 | 295 |
| Number of these patients residing in common lodging houses (about) | 20 |
| The average number of cases notified annually during the past ten years | 116 |
| The number notified in the year 1926 | 92 |
| Of the 92 cases notified in 1926, the number who attended the Dispensary | 43 |
| Total number of new cases examined at the Dispensary for the first time in 1926, including the above 43, and all contacts | 127 |
| Total attendances at the Dispensary in 1926 | 872 |