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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
Bethnal Green 1914
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1914 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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TABLE 11a. Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912. Summary of Notifications received during the year 1914.
| Age Periods. | Number of Notifications on Form A. | Number of Notifications on Form B. | Number of Notications on Form C | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Notifications. | Total Notifications [i.e.including cases previously notified by other doctors). | Primary Notifications. | Total Notifications (i.e. including notifications by other doctors). | 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 | Total | Under 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | Total | |||||
| Pulmonary— | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Males | 7 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 45 | 43 | 33 | 15 | 3 | 201 | 260 | - | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 148 | 71 |
| Females | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 18 | 36 | 25 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 143 | 176 | — | 2 | — | 2 | 2 | 50 | 28 |
| Non-pulmonary— | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Males | 2 | 14 | 18 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | — | 64 | 76 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 6 |
| Females | 1 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 46 | 52 | — | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 8 |
| Totals | 14 | 31 | 33 | 39 | 51 | 43 | 89 | 71 | 55 | 23 | 5 | 454 | 564 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 20 | 221 | 113 |