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Shoreditch 1930

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: PUBLICHEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS. 1912Summary of Notifications during the Period from the 29th December, 1929, to the 27th December, 1930, in the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.

PUBLICHEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS. 1912

Summary of Notifications during the Period from the 29th December, 1929, to the 27th December, 1930, in the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.

Notifications on Form A. (By Doctor who takes diagnosis.)Notifications on Form B. (By School Medical Inspector.) Number of Primary Notifications *of new cases of Tuberculosis †.Number of Notifications on Form C. (of admission of case to Institution).Number of Notifications on Form D. (of discharge of case from Institution).
Number of Primary Notifications *of new cases of Tuberculosis†.Total Notifications on Form A.
Age-periods.0 to 1.1 to 5.5 to 10.10 to 15.15 to 20.20 to 25.25 to 35.35 to 45.45 to 55.55 to 65.65 and upwards.Total (all ages).Under 5.5 to 10.10 to 15.Total 0-15Total Notifications on Form B.Poor Law Institutions.Sanatoria.Poor Law Institutions.Sanatoria.
Pulmonary, Males...32591313232310...101175...............45843257
„ Females......671011181644...76119.........•••...24571658
Non-pulmonary, Males...3711131.........1721...............227...18
Females...3661312...1...2330..................14115
Cols. (1)(2)(3)W(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)

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v.—TUBERCULOSIS.
The particulars of the notifications received during the year are given in the
following summary:—
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Patients notified as suffering from both pulmonary and non-pulmonary disease arc included among the "pulmonary"
returns only.
*Primary notifications relate to patients who have never previously been notified, either on Form A or on Form B, in
the Sanitary District in which the case was notified in 1930. Any additional notification of a case which has been previously
notified in the same Sanitary District is regarded as duplicate.
†Cols. 2-13 and 15-18. Only those cases which have been notified for the first time during the year on Form A or on Form B
in Shoreditch, and which have not been brought to the notice of the M.O.H. in a previous year otherwise than through formal
notifica ion, are included in Cols. 2-13, or 15-18, respectively.
Notifications of tuberculosis which are made by Naval, Military, or Air Force medical authorities in pursuance of §5 (b) of
the Local Government (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1916, are included in the Table above as if they were notifications made on
Form A:
Col. 14. All notifications on Form A, whether duplicate or not, are included in this column.
Col. 19. All notifications which have been made during the year on Form B in Shoreditch, whether the cases have previously
been notitied in the area or not, cither on Form A or on Form B, arc included in this column.