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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Brentford and Chiswick 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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The total number of cases on the Tuberculosis Register at the end of 1951 was 949, viz.,
pulmonary 823, non-pulmonary 126.
TABLE XII
Tuberculosis Register - 1951
| Pulmonary | Non-Plumonary | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | ||
| (a) | Number of Gases on Register at commencement of year | 422 | 378 | 52 | 72 | 474 | 450 |
| (b) | Number of Cases notified for first time during year under Regulations | 33 | 38 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 42 |
| (c) | Cases restored to Register during year | 2 | 4 | - | - | 2 | 4 |
| (d) | Gases added to Register otherwise than by notification under Regulations:- | ||||||
| (1) Transferred from other districts | 9 | 4 | 1 | - | 10 | 4 | |
| (2) Non-Notified deaths | 7 | 2 | - | 2 | 7 | 4 | |
| (e) | Number of Gases removed from Register during year | 42 | 34 | 5 | 3 | 47 | 37 |
| (f) | Number of Gases remaining on Register at end of year | 431 | 392 | 51 | 75 | 482 | 467 |
Cases removed from the Register shown under (e) are accounted for as follows:-
| Found not to be T. B. | Recovered | Lost sight of | Removed to another area | Died at home | Died at Sanatorium or other Institution | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F |
| PULMONARY | |||||||||||||
| 2 | - | 1 | 4 | - | 2 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 42 | 34 |
| NON-PULMONARY | |||||||||||||
| - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | - | — | 2 | 5 | 3 |