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Harrow 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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TUBERCULOSIS.
Notifications.
| New Cases. | Deaths. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| 1—4 | — | — | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 5—9 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | — | - | - | - |
| 10—14 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 5 |
| 15—19 | 6 | 7 | 4 | — | 4 | 1 | 1 | - |
| 20—24 | 8 | 21 | — | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 25—34 | 36 | 53 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 1 | - |
| 35—44 | 32 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 45—54 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 1 | — |
| 55—64 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | _ | 1 |
| 65 & upwards | 6 | 2 | — | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - |
| Total | 119 | 107 | 31 | 22 | 45 | 32 | 7 | 9 |
During the year 226 pulmonary cases (119 male and 107
female) were added to the register, a slight increase on the figure
for the previous year. This increase was to be expected because
of the admission to the district of persons from other areas, this
transfer of population accounting for the fact that of the persons
notified, 106 (49 male and 57 female) were known to have been
notified in some other district before coming to live here, a figure
which compares with one of 79 for the year 1939. This figure
of 106 is probably an under-statement of the position as there
were a further 56 persons of whom the particulars are not known
of which quite a substantial proportion will probably ultimately
prove to have transferred here suffering from the disease. It
should be appreciated that the temporary transfer of population
seriously disturbs the figures relating to tuberculosis. There
will be a time lag between a notification being received in an area
to which a person is transferred (the date on which that name
appears on the register of the new authority) and the date on
which that person's name is removed from the area in which he
formerly resided, and for this period of time his name will figure
in the returns of two areas and, maybe, in more than two if further
removals occur. Then again a further cause for an apparently
high notification rate occurs when populations are transferred as
the persons suffering from tuberculosis who are received in any
area may all be notified within a short time after transfer. If
they are, then their names are added to the register of the receiving
area at the rate of five per thousand population (this being the