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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
Hampstead 1926
Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health
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There is a Local Propaganda Committee associated with a Voluntary
Body in the Borough.
Notices issued by the County Council, which indicate the Treatment
Centres, arc exhibited in suitable places in the Borough, especially
in Public Conveniences; and information is also given at the Public
Health Department, under the strictest secrecy, to persons of either sex
who apply personally or by letter to the Medical Officer of Health.
No record is kept of the reason for disinfection of bedding, clothes,
&c., carried out in this connection, or of persons who ask for information,
and all letters of inquiry are destroyed after having been
answered in unofficial envelopes.
Tuberculosis.
Cases notified in 1926 : —
69 Pulmonary.
16 Non-pulmonary.
Number of cases in the Borough, 602.
The table that follows show the number and distribution of cases during the year:—
| Tuberculosis Regulations, 1924. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | |
| Number of cases on the Register at the commencement of the year 1926 | 279 | 271 | 91 | 86 |
| Number of cases notified under the Regulations for the first time during the year | 30 | 39 | 6 | 10 |
| Number of cases brought under notice otherwise than by notification during the year | 9 | 8 | 3 | 4 |
| 318 | 318 | 100 | 100 | |
| *Number of cases removed from the Register during the year | 105 | 82 | 28 | 19 |
| Number of cases remaining on the Register at the end of the year | 213 | 236 | 72 | 81 |
*These consist of 99 cases de-notined, and 135 dead or removed from the Borough.