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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 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough.
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The localisation of the disease in the 330 cases notified in 1929 is summarised below :—
| Localisation of Disease. | ||
Non-Notification of Tuberculosis.
| The following table gives particulars in regard to non-notification of Tuberculosis for the 4 years 1926-1929 :— | |||||
| 1926 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 34 |
| 1927 | 12 | 14 | — | — | 26 |
| 1928 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 23 |
| 1929 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 34 |
In accordance with the suggestions contained in the circular
letter of the Ministry of Health, dated 22nd December, 1924,
with reference to the requirements of notification, in all cases
where the obligation of notification is not complied with the attention
of the Medical Practitioner concerned is drawn to the omission,
and an explanation requested. It was not found necessary to take
any legal action during 1929.
Deaths from Tuberculosis.
The death-rate from Tuberculosis was markedly higher in
1929 than in the previous year, being 127.3 per 100,000 population,
as compared with 98.1 in 1928 and 103.6 in 1927. The lowest
death-rate hitherto recorded was that of 1926, when it was 96-6
per 100,000 population.