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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
Holborn 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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Tuberculosis.
Summary of Notifications and Deaths.
The following table gives the number of new cases of tuberculosis and deaths from the disease in the Borough during 1934 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 | — | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| 1 | - | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 |
| 6 | 2 | - | — | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| JO | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 15 | 2 | 4 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — |
| 20 | 9 | 4 | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | — |
| 25 | 11 | 5 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 35 | 14 | 5 | - | — | 3 | 1 | i | 1 |
| 45 | 7 | 4 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | — | — |
| 65 | 6 | 3 | - | — | 6 | 1 | — | — |
| 65 | 5 | — | — | 1 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 57 | 26 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 2 | |
Total number of cases on the Register of Tuberculosis in the
Borough on the 31st December, 1934 333
Number of these patients residing in common lodging houses 41
The average number of cases notified annually during the
past ten years 88
The number notified in the year 1934 89
Of the 89 casees notified in 1934, the number who attended
the Dispensary 35
Total number of new cases examined at the Dispensary for
the first time in 1934, including the above, and all
contacts 104
Total attendances at the Dispensary in 1934 930
Supervision of home conditions; visits paid by—
Tuberculosis Officer 70
Dispensary Nurse 1,207