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Table VI.
Tuberculosis Notifications. The figures for a series of years are shown below:—
Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Total of all forms. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
General Population. | C.L.H. and no Address. | Total. | |||||||
Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | Total. | |||
1912 | 233 | 154 | 115 | 10 | 512 | — | — | 59 | 571 |
1913 | 203 | 174 | 89 | 8 | 474 | 91 | 86 | 177 | 651 |
1914 | 186 | 105 | 94 | 4 | 390 | 34 | 38 | 72 | 462 |
1915 | 155 | 95 | 59 | 8 | 317 | 46 | 26 | 72 | 389 |
1916 | 183 | 135 | 64 | 9 | 391 | 42 | 39 | 81 | 472 |
1917 | 209 | 164 | 51 | 7 | 431 | 42 | 34 | 76 | 507 |
1918 | 293 | 225 | 40 | 4 | 562 | 50 | 55 | 105 | 667 |
1919 | 197 | 122 | 30 | 4 | 353 | 35 | 23 | 58 | 411 |
1920 | 143 | 133 | 29 | 4 | 309 | 29 | 29 | 58 | 367 |
1921 | lis | 114 | 37 | 2 | 271 | 19 | 22 | 41 | 312 |
1922 | 119 | 110 | 42 | 2 | 273 | 24 | 30 | 54 | 327 |
1923 | 111 | 114 | 42 | 1 | 268 | 24 | 32 | 56 | 324 |
1924 | 140 | 122 | 33 | 1 | 296 | 27 | 24 | 51 | 347 |
1925 | 108 | 92 | 27 | 1 | 228 | 23 | 31 | 54 | 282 |
1926 | 117 | 90 | 23 | 4 | 240 | 18 | 30 | 48 | 288 |
1927 | 103 | 67 | 24 | 1 | 195 | 21 | 29 | 50 | 245 |
1928 | 97 | 61 | 27 | 2 | 187 | 22 | 27 | 49 | 236 |
1929 | 106 | 105 | 42 | 6 | 259 | 14 | 28 | 42 | 301 |
1930 | 104 | 69 | 16 | 1 | 190 | 24 | 33 | 57 | 247 |
(Military cases which were excluded during the war were again made notifiable in 1920.)
A return required by the Ministry is appended, also a table showing
the distribution of the cases in the various wards of the City.
Non-notified Deaths.—There were 21 deaths from Tuberculosis (13
males and 8 females) during 1930 of persons who had not been notified
in Westminster. The majority of these had been notified elsewhere,
some were sudden deaths of visitors to this country, of inmates of
asylums, etc., and the cause of death in some cases was only discovered
on post-mortem examination. These 21 non-notified deaths gave a
percentage of 19.6 of the total deaths from Tuberculosis for the year.
The total number of cases of Tuberculosis on the Register at the end
of 1930 was 1,607 as compared with 1,571 at the end of the year 1929.
The Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1924.
The number of unnotified deaths is much lower this year, having
fallen from 39 to 21; the corresponding percentage proportions are 31.4
per cent. (1929) and 19.6 per cent. (1930). Enquiries were made, but
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