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Kensington 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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59
TUBERCULOSIS.
During the year 210 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 50 cases of non-pulmonary
tuberculosis were notified.
The following table shows the number of cases of both forms of the disease notified in the
borough and the several wards therein daring each year since 1923.
The following table shows the number of cases of both forms of the disease notified in the borough and the several wards therein daring each year since 1923.
| District | Years. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923. | 1924. | 1925. | 1926. | 1927. | 1928. | 1929. | 1930. | 1931. | 1932. | |
| The Borough | 403 | 314 | 292 | 317 | 252 | 276 | 241 | 260 | 245 | 260 |
| North Kensington | 267 | 228 | 207 | 227 | 166 | 179 | 156 | 178 | 149 | 174 |
| South Kensington | 136 | 86 | 85 | 90 | 86 | 97 | 85 | 82 | 96 | 86 |
| Wards. | ||||||||||
| St. Charles | 61 | 45 | 52 | 50 | 39 | 48 | 39 | 56 | 49 | 55 |
| Golborne | 86 | 65 | 56 | 69 | 53 | 57 | 41 | 46 | 40 | 48 |
| Norland | 85 | 75 | 67 | 59 | 44 | 49 | 43 | 42 | 31 | 42 |
| Pembridge | 35 | 43 | 32 | 30 | 25 | 33 | 34 | 29 | 29 | |
| Holland | 26 | 30 | 27 | 20 | 11 | 25 | 20 | 21 | 17 | 25 |
| Earl's Court | 28 | 13 | 18 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 23 | 17 |
| Queen's Gate | 22 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 |
| Redcliffe | 41 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 25 | 26 | 25 | 20 | 32 | 24 |
| Brompton | 19 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 12 |
Medical practitioners are reporting cases at an earlier stage of the disease than was the
practice several years ago. This year there were only 14 out of 127 persons dying from tuber¬culosis
who had not been notified prior to death whereas in 1931 there were 29 unnotified out of
148 deaths, and in 1930, 41 out of 165.
The following summary shows the age and sex distribution of the cases notified and the deaths
from this disease during the year :—
The following summary shows the age and sex distribution of the cases notified and the deaths from this disease during the year :—
| Age periods. | New cases† | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory. | Non-respiratory. | Respiratory. | Non-respiratory. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| _ | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | — | 2 | |||
| 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | — | — | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | — | — | 1 | — |
| 15 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | — | 3 |
| 20 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| 25 | 27 | 31 | — | 5 | 11 | 8 | 2 | — |
| 19 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 12 | — | 2 | |
| 18 | 12 | — | — | 13 | 6 | — | — | |
| 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 1 | — | |
| 1 | 3 | — | — | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | |
| Totals | 104 | 106 | 23 | 27 | 66 | 41 | 8 | 12 |
†Primary notifications of persons notified during life to be suffering from tuberculosis.