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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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TABLE X
TUBERCULOSIS REGISTER - AS AT 31.12.55
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| (a) Number of Cases on Register at commencement of year | 403 | 299 | 21 | 42 | 424 | 341 |
| (b) Number of Cases notified for the first time during year under Regulations | 29 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 31 | 23 |
| (c) Cases restored to Register during year | 5 | 5 | - | - | 5 | 5 |
| (d) Cases added to Register otherwise than by notification under Regulations (i) Transferred from other districts | 19 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 17 |
| (ii) Non-notified deaths | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| (e) Number of Cases removed from Register during year | 39 | 27 | 1 | 2 | 40 | 29 |
| (f) Number of Cases remaining on Register at end of year | 418 | 313 | 24 | 45 | 442 | 358 |
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 |
| 1 | - | - | - | 1 | PULMONARY | 2 | 3 | 2 | 39 | 27 | |||
| 2 | 31 | 21 | 3 | ||||||||||
| - | 1 | - | N0N-PULM0NARY | - | - | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| - | - | - | 2 | - | - | ||||||||
The total number of cases on the Tuberculosis Register at the end of 1955
was 800, viz,, pulmonary 731, non-pulmonary 69,
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