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 for Bethnal Green Borough]
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67
TUBERCULOSIS.
Tuberculosis of all kinds is notifiable, and particulars
of the notification certificates received during
the year are set out in the tables appended hereto,
from which it will be seen that 140 new cases of
Tuberculosis were notified under the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 3 of the notifications
being posthumous.
Information was also received from the RegistrarGeneral
or from the Local Registrars of the deaths
of 8 persons who had died from Tuberculosis but who
had not been notified under the Regulations. During
the year 19 persons who had been notified in other
Boroughs to be suffering from Tuberculosis took up
their residence in this Borough.
The number of patients remaining on the Tuberculosis
Register at the 31st December, 1936, was
1,200. The details are given in the table on pages
68 and 69.
During the year there were registered 65 deaths
from Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and 16 deaths from
other tuberculous diseases.
The number of deaths from Tuberculosis of all kinds during the past few years is as follows :—
Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonarv | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
1926 | 121 | 20 | 141 |
1927 | 115 | 17 | 132 |
1928 | 105 | 18 | 123 |
1929 | 109 | 10 | 119 |
1930 | 96 | 12 | 108 |
1931 | 119 | 13 | 132 |
1932 | 99 | 11 | 110 |
1933 | 74 | 14 | 88 |
1934 | 74 | 7 | 81 |
1935 | 59 | 4 | 63 |