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City of London 1919
Report of the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London for the year 1919
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PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1912,
and
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations (No. 2), 1918.
Summary of Notifications during the period from the 1st January, 1919, to the 31st December, 1919, in the City of London.
| AGE-PERIODS | notifications on form a | notification on form B † | Number of Notifications on Form c | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Primary Notifications * | Total Primary Notifications | Total Notifications on Form a | Number of Primary Notifications * | Total Notifications on Form B | Poor Law Institutions | Sanatoria | ||||||||||||||
| 0 to 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 55 | 55 to 65 | 65 and upwards | Under 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | Total Primary Notifications | ||||||
| Pulmonary Males | .... | .... | .... | .... | 1 | .... | 4 | 5 | 1 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | l | |||
| „ Females | .... | .... | 1 | 1 | 1 | .... | .... | 1 | .... | .... | 1 | 5 | .... | .... | 1 | l | l | l | 5 | |
| Non-pulmonary Males | .... | .... | 1 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 3 | 3 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | |
| „ „ Females | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Col. (1) | (8) | (6) | (?) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (12) | (13) | (14) | (15) | (19) | (20) | ||||||||
Patients notified as suffering from both pulmonary and non-pulmonary disease should be included among the " pulmonary " returns only.
All notifications on Form D should be disregarded in preparing this return.
* Primary notifications relate to patients who have not previously been notified in this or former years, either on Form A or on Form B, in the area to which the
return relates. Any additional notification of a case which has been previously notified in the area is to be regarded as duplicate. (Note-—No primary
notifications should be made on Form C )
† A School Medical Inspector, or the Medical Officer of Health of a county, county borough, or other district, if acting as a School Medical Inspector, is required to
notify on Form B all cases of tuberculosis discovered in the course of inspection of children attending public elementary schools whether or not these have
previously been notified.
Cols. 2-13. Only those cases which have been notified for the first time during the year on Form A in the area concerned, and which have never previously been
notified in the area, either on' Form A or on Form B, should be included in these columns.
Col. 14. The object of this column is to show the extent to which duplicate notification occurs on Form A, and all notifications on Form A, whether duplicate or
not, should be included in this column.
Cols. 15-18 Only those cases which have been notified for the first time during the year on Form B in the area concerned, and which have never previously been
notified in the area, either on Form A or on Form B, should be included in these columns.
Col. 19. All notifications which have been made during the year on Form B in the area concerned, whether the cases have previously been notified in the area, or not,
either on Form A or on Form B, should be included in this column.
Col. 21. Only notifications on Form C made by the Medical Officers of Sanatoria, as defined in the Tuberculosis Regulations of 1912, should be entered in this column.