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Willesden 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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medical inspector, and by the superintendent of a poor law
institution or a sanatorium on two occasions. In addition
it may be notified by more than one private practitioner.
During the year the actual number of persons notified as
suffering with tuberculosis was 416, the percentage of multiple
notifications being 43.4.
The following Table, No. 38, shows the number of notifications
and the number of new cases each year since 1909 :
Table No. 38.
| Year. | No. of notifi-cations received. | No. of new cases to which notifications refer. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmon-ary. | Other forms. | Pulmon-ary. | Other forms. | Total. | |
| * 1909 (calendar year) | 196 | • • • | 107 | • • • | 107 |
| 1910 ( ,, „ ) | 140 | • • • | 61 | ... | 61 |
| **1911 ( „ „ ) | 241 | • • • | 230 | • • • | 230 |
| † 1912 (52 weeks) | 851 | • • • | 487 | • • • | 487 |
| ‡ 1913 („ „) | 693 | 181 | 368 | 146 | 514 |
| 1914 („ „) | 613 | 122 | 326 | 90 | 416 |
| Total | 2734 | 303 | 1579 | 236 | 1815 |
*Poor Law Cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis notifiable from 1st January, 1909
** Hospital ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, 1st May, 1911
†All ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, 1st January, 1912
‡ All Cases of all forms of ,, ,, ,, 1st February, 1913
777 of the 1,815 cases of Tuberculosis notified in
Willesden since 1909 were living in the area at the end of
the year.
The 326 new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis notified in
1914 include 9 in which the lung disease was associated
with disease in other organs: glands 2, bowels 2, larynx 4,
testes 1.