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Hampstead 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead, Metropolitan Borough of]
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The following table shows the age distribution of the patients dying from consumption in Hampstead in the ten years 1903-1911:—
| Year. | Age Period. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0—5 | 5—15 | 15—25 | 25—65 | 65— | All Ages. | |
| 1903 | - | 1 | 14 | 46 | 5 | 66 |
| 1904 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 53 | 3 | 73 |
| 1905 | 1 | — | 12 | 57 | 3 | 73 |
| 1906 | 1 | — | 8 | 45 | 3 | 57 |
| 1907 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 45 | 3 | 61 |
| 1908 | — | 2 | 14 | 55 | a | 74 |
| 1909 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 37 | 2 | 53 |
| 1910 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 37 | 7 | 58 |
| 1911 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 44 | 5 | 56 |
| 1912 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 45 | 2 | 64 |
| Totals. . | 9 | 11 | 115 | 464 | 36 | 635 |
Notification.
In 1902 a system of voluntary notification of consumption was
adopted in Hampstead ; on January 1st, 1909, the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations of the Local Government Board, which provided for
the compulsary notification of cases of consumption occurring in Poor
Law patients, came into operation ; on May 1st, 1911, compulsory notification
was extended by the Public Health (Tuberculosis in Hospitals)
Regulations, 1911, to all cases of consumption occurring in hospital
patients ; and notification was extended, generally, by the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulation, 1911, which came into operation on January
1st, 1912. In view of the scope of these latter Regulations the Voluntary
System which had been in operation since 1902, lapsed. The
increase in the number of patients notified in recent years is due to the
operation of the instalments of compulsory notification referred to.
The following table gives the number of patients newly notified in each
year since 1902:—