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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

Camberwell 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.

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Table: Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912. Summary of Notifications during the period from February 1 st, 1913, to the end of the week ending January 3rd, 1914.

Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912. Summary of Notifications during the period from February 1 st, 1913, to the end of the week ending January 3rd, 1914.

Age Periods.Number of Notifications on Form A.
Primary Notifications.Total Notifications, i.e., including cases previously notified by other Doctors.
0 to 11 to 55 to 1010 to 1515 to 2020 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 and upwards.Total.
Pulmonary—
Males110432328389883793814455662
Females–1235293039877849246389555
Non-Pulmonary—
Males7346631141369634193233
Females52848312116237762194223

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Age Periods.Number of Notifications on Form B.Number of Notifications on Form C.
Primary Notifications.Total Notifications, i.e., including cases previously notified by other Doctors.Poor Law Institutions.Sanatoria.
Under 55 to 1010 to 15Total.
Pulmonary—
Males–131141889135
Females–10212161283
Non-Pulmonary —
Males–7142123117
Females–761313–18

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when the house was visited and someone found at home who was
able to give any particulars. There are also many notified whose
only address has been a lodging house or the workhouse, and also
those, whose numbers are not inconsiderable, who, either by
accident or design, ara never at home when a visit is made.