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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| (a) Number of Cases on Register at commencement of year | 418 | 313 | 24 | 45 | 442 | 358 |
| (b) Number of Cases notified for the first time during year under Regulations | 26 | 24 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 28 |
| (c) Cases restored to Register during year | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| (d) Cases added to Register otherwise than by notification under Regulations:-(i) Transferred from other districts | 18 | 16 | 2 | - | 20 | 16 |
| (ii) Non-notified deaths | 2 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| (e) Number of Cases removed from Register during year | 37 | 31 | 3 | 3 | 40 | 34 |
| (f) Number of Cases remaining on Register at end of year | 428 | 322 | 25 | 47 | 453 | 369 |
Cases removed from the Register shown under (e) are accounted for as follows:-
| Found not to be T.B. | Re-covered | 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 | |||||||||||||
| - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 28 | 27 | 1 | - | 7 | - | 37 | 31 |
| NON - PULMONARY | |||||||||||||
| - | - | - | - | l | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
The total number of cases on the Tuberculosis Register at the end of 1956
was 822, viz., pulmonary 750, non-pulmonary 72.
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