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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
Battersea 1924
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1924
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Summary of Notifications during the period from the 30th December, 1923, to the 3rd January, 1925, in the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea.
| Age Periods. | Notifications on Form A. | † Notifications on Form B. | No. of Notifications on Form C. | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * Number of Primary Notifications. | Total No. on Form a. | * No. of Primary Notifications. | Total No. 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 over. | Total. | Under 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | Total Primary Notifications | |||||
| Pulmonary— | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Males | – | 2 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 24 | 28 | 25 | 19 | 10 | 3 | 131 | 190 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 59 | 110 |
| Females | – | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 24 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 96 | 137 | — | — | — | — | — | 36 | 45 |
| N on-Pulmonary— | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Males | 2 | 9 | 15 | 10 | 5 | – | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | 46 | 50 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 26 |
| Females | — | 9 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | – | 41 | 46 | – | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | 18 |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11 | (12) | (13) | (14) | (15) | (16) | (17) | (18) | (19) | (20) | (21) |
In filling up the form the following notes should be carefully observed—
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 previously been 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. If in the case of any institution belonging to the Council, formal notifications on Form C have not been made, the totals of the weekly admissions during the year of patients
proper for notification on Form C should be shewn (according to the classification in Column 1) in brackets in Column 21.