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Harrow 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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TUBERCULOSIS.
Notification.
| New Cases. | Deaths. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Notification. | Brought to notice other than by Form A. | |||||||||||
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 1— | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| 5— | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 4 |
| 10— | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 3 | ||||
| 15— | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 4 | 3 | 2 | - |
| 20— | 11 | 10 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | ||||
| 25— | 22 | 28 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | - | - | 9 | 7 | 1 | - |
| 35— | 17 | 13 | - | - | 1 | 8 | - | - | 7 | 10 | 1 | - |
| 45— | 9 | 7 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 8 | 1 | - | - |
| 55— | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | — | 4 | 2 | 2 | - |
| 65 & upwards | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| 78 | 70 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 24 | 7 | 5 | |
By the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930, every
medical practitioner called in to visit any person and any School
Medical Inspector inspecting children attending public elementary
schools shall, within 48 hours after his becoming aware that such
person or one of such children is suffering from tuberculosis, notify the
disease to the Medical Officer of Health of the district in which
the place of residence of the person is situate at the date of notification,
provided that a medical practitioner or School Medical
Inspector shall not notify a case if he has reasonable grounds for
believing that the case has, in fact, already been notified to the
Medical Officer of Health of the district within which the place of
residence of the person is at the time situate.
In addition, the Medical Officer of a Poor Law Institution or
a Sanatorium shall, as soon as practicable after the end of each
week, notify on a specified form all persons suffering from tuberculosis
and admitted during the week, to the Medical Officer of Health
of the district within which the place of residence of the persons
notified are situate, and all cases discharged during the week, other
than those transferred to a Poor Law Institution or Sanatorium,
to the Medical Officer of Health of the district within which the
place of destination of the persons notified are situated.
Every Medical Officer of Health on becoming aware that a
person who has resided in his district and who is suffering from
tuberculosis has permanently changed his place of residence into