Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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Frequent corrections have to be made in the Tuberculosis notification register, and quarterly returns as to reasons for deletions, together with the additions, are sent to the London County Council. The following is the summary for the year:—
Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Gross Total. | |||||
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Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | Total | ||
No. of cases on the notification register at the end of December, 3929 | 1,870 | 1,156 | 3,026 | 549 | 512 | 1,061 | 4,087 |
No. of cases removed from the register for the following reasons:— | |||||||
Cured | 13 | 14 | 27 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 48 |
Untraced | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 |
Removed from Borough | 39 | 49 | 21 | 118 | |||
Died | 138 | 78 | 216 | 12 | 13 | 25 | 241 |
Denotified | 16 | 9 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 27 |
No. of new cases added to the register | 242 | 134 | 376 | 68 | 45 | 113 | 489 |
No. of cases remaining on the register at the end of December, 1930 | 1,903 | 1,150 | 3,053 | 574 | 513 | 1,087 | 4,140 |