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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
Paddington 1914
Report on the vital statistics and the work of the Public Health Department for the years 1914-18 (inclusive)
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TUBERCULOSIS.
Tuberculosis: All forms, Persons. Index Numbers (Totals for 1914 = 100).
| 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| " Definite " | 108 | 96 | 92 | 83 |
| "Suspect" | 82 | 95 | 101 | 95 |
TABLE 8. Tuberculosis. On Register at end of 1918 "Survivors." Suspect. ... ... ... ... ... ... 25 19 25 33 21 16 53 143 91 115
| Total Cases reported. | 1903 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspect. | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 286 | 269 | 274 | 239 | 203 | 157 | 129 | 149 | 159 | 150 | ||
| Definite. | 4 | 20 | 18 | 57 | 84 | 173 | 343 | 341 | 397 | 778 | 812 | 531 | 582 | 526 | 502 | 451 | ||
| 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | |||
| Definite. | ... | 1 | ... | o | 6 | 62 | 68 | 73 | 152 | 188 | 155 | 215 | 223 | 233 | 294 | |||
| Restored to Register. | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 6 | 16 | 12 | 13 | 29 | 22 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Removed. | ... | 10 | 17 | 34 | 66 | 315 | 312 | 325 | 465 | 406 | 246 | 204 | 135 | 128 | 57 | |||
| Diagnosis varied. | ... | ... | 3 | 2 | 8 | 34 | 56 | 55 | 70 | 102 | 124 | 71 | 68 | 7 | 64 | 35 | ||
| Reported "Arrested" | ... | ... | 1 | 5 | 13 | 60 | 61 | 57 | 116 | 81 | 42 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | |||
| • Known to have died from all causes during the year. | 1918 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 9 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 32 | 102 | |
| 1917 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 23 | 43 | 119 | ||||
| 1916 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | o | 3 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 14 | 41 | 106 | |||||
| 1915 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 24 | 46 | 105 | ||||||
| 1914 | ... | ... | ... | 1 . | ... | 2 | 4 | 8 | 28 | 55 | 85 | : | ||||||
| 1913 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 45 | 105 | |||||||
| 1912 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 25 | 76 | ||||||||
| 1911 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 34 | 69 | |||||||||
| 1910 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 7 | 25 | 42 | |||||||||||
| 1909 | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 65 | |||||||||||
| 1908 | ... | 1 | 7 | 12 | 25 | |||||||||||||
| 1907 | ... | 1 | 1 | 5 | 14 | |||||||||||||
| 1906 | ... | 1 | 3 | 17 | ||||||||||||||
| 1905 | 2 | 1 | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| 1904 | ... | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Total Cases reported. | 1903 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Suspect. | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 286 | 269 | 274 | 239 | 203 | 157 | 129 | 149 | 159 | 150 | ||
| Definite. | 4 | 20 | 18 | 57 | 84 | 173 | 343 | 341 | 397 | 778 | 812 | 531 | 582 | 526 | 502 | 451 | ||
| 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | |||