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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
City of Westminster 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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| Year. | Number of Certificates Received. | New Cases. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. | B. | C. | D. | Total. | Inmates of C.L.H., &c. | Inmates of Private Houses. | Total. | |
| 1909 | 328 | 53 | 56 | 437 | 136 | 111 | 247 | |
| 1910 .. | 276 | 39 | 49 | 1 | 365 | 90 | 50 | 140 |
A is notification of a person in a Poor Law Institution. B of a
person in the district. C is notice that a notified person has left a Poor
Law Institution. D refers to change of address of a notified person in
the district.
| Year. | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Other Forms. New Cases. | Total Certificates. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Certificates. | New Cases. | Suspects. | Change of Address. | |||
| 1908 | 155 | 148 | 2 | 5 | - | 162 |
| 1909 | 164 | 159 | — | 5 | — | 169 |
| 1910 | 155 | 135 | 100 | 46 | 17 | 318 |
Of the 100 persons suspected to be suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis
in 1910, in 24 the diagnosis was eventually confirmed, and in two
the suspicion was negatived; the others were still under observation at
the end of the year.
| Ward. | Notified. | Not Notified. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home. | Hospital. | Infirmary. | Asylum. | Home. | Hospital. | Infirmary | Asylurr. | |
| Conduit | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - |
| Grosvenor.. | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | — | - |
| Hamlet | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | — | 1 | — |
| Knightsbridge | — | — | — | - | 3 | - | 2 | - |
| "Victoria | 6 | 2 | 9 | - | 21 | 7 | 10 | 4 |
| St. Margarets | 1 | — | — | - | 2 | 1 | — | — |
| St. John .. | 11 | 3 | 10 | - | 4 | 3 | 18 | — |
| St. Anne | 1 | — | 5 | - | — | 3 | — | — |
| Great Marlborough | — | 1 | — | - | 2 | — | 1 | — |
| Pall Mall | — | — | — | - | — | 1 | — | — |
| Regent | — | — | 2 | - | 5 | 4 | — | — |
| Charing Cross | 1 | — | — | - | — | — | — | — |
| Covent Garden | — | — | 4 | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Strand | — | — | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 21 | 7 | 42 | 1 | 45 | 25 | 37 | 8 | |