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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
St Pancras 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Of the 901 notifications received on Forms C and D (i.e., of admissions and
discharges of cases of tuberculosis to and from Poor Law Institutions and
Sanatoria), 189 were in respect of cases which had not been notified previously
to this Authority.
The total number of primary notifications received during the year
(composed of January primary notifications and primary notifications on the
new forms A, B, C and D), was, then, 1,158 of which 928 were in respect
of pulmonary tuberculosis and 230 of other forms of tuberculosis.
These are set out and analysed for age and sex in the following table: —
Primary Notifications during 1913.
| Ages. | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Other Tuberculosis. | Total all forms. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Total. | Males. | Females. | Total. | ||
| 0-1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 9 | |
| 1—5 | 16 | 8 | 24 | 27 | 10 | 37 | 61 |
| 5—10 | 31 | 23 | 54 | 50 | 20 | 70 | 124 |
| 10—15 | 18 | 16 | 34 | 25 | 16 | 41 | 75 |
| 15—25 | 78 | 89 | 167 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 185 |
| 25—35 | 104 | 87 | 191 | 12 | 14 | 26 | 217 |
| 35 -45 | 116 | 75 | 191 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 204 |
| 45- 55 | 101 | 49 | 150 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 156 |
| 55—65 | 57 | 27 | 84 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 89 |
| 65 upwards | 17 | 14 | 31 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 38 |
| Totals | 538 | 390 | 928 | 144 | 86 | 230 | 1158 |
The rates for 1913 of (primary) notification of tuberculosis based on the
1911 census population of the Borough (Males 106,728, Females 111,659}
were therefore: —