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St Pancras 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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TUBERCULOSIS.
Notification.—All forms of tuberculosis are notifiable by medical
practitioners under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912, and
1914 was the first complete year during which the regulations were in force.
Notification is required of every case, unless the practitioner has reasonable
grounds for believing that the case has already been previously notified.
Such notifications are made on " Form A," except in the case of the notification
of school children by school medical inspectors, which is made on "Form B."
"Form C" is used for the notification of admission to Poor Law Institutions
and Sanatoria of previously notified cases, and these notifications should be
sent to this authority whenever a St. Pancras case is admitted to any such
institution. "Form D" is used for the notification of discharge from Poor
Law Institutions and Sanatoria of previously notified cases, and these
notifications should be sent to this authority whenever a case is discharged toa
St. Pancras address.
The total number of notifications of cases of tuberculosis received during
1914 (Forms A, B, C and D), including duplicate notification was 2,057
(1897 pulmonary: 160 non-pulmonary).
The total gross number of notifications received each year since the disease-became notifiable is set out below:—
| Notifications (including Duplicates). | |||
| 1906 | System of voluntary notification instituted 1st January, 1906 | Pulmonary. | Other Forms. |
| 207 | – | ||
| 1907 | 235 | – | |
| 1908 | 249 | – | |
| 1909 | Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908, came into operation 1st Januarv, 1909 | 936 | – |
| 1910 | 907 | – | |
| 1911 | Public Health (Tuberculosis in Hospitals) Regulations, 1911, came into operation 1st May, 1911 | 1464 | – |
| 1912 | Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1911, came into operation 1st January, 1912 | 1735 | – |
| 1913 | Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912, came into operation 1st February, 1913 | 1877 | 273 |
| 1914 | 1897 | 160 | |
1,023 notifications (900 pulmonary, 123 non-pulmonary) were received
during the year on forms A and B. Of these 161 (145 pulmonary, 16 nonpulmonary)
had been notified to this authority before; so that the number
of primary notifications received on forms A and B was 862 (755 pulmonary,
107 non-pulmonary).
1034 notifications (997 pulmonary, 37 non-pulmonary) were received on
forms C and D. Of these 152 (138 pulmonary, 14 non-pulmonary) were in
respect of cases which had not been notified previously to this authority.
The total number of primary notifications received during the year was,,
therefore, 1,014 (893 pulmonary, 121 non-pulmonary).
In the previous year (1913) the number of primary notifications received
was 1158 (928 pulmonary, 230 non-pulmonary).
In the following table the notifications received are set out in the forms
suggested by the Local Government Board.