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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Supplemental Return.
Part II.- New cases of tuberculosis coming to the knowledge of the medical officer of health during the above-mentioned period otherwise than by formal notification.
| Age Periods. | 0- | 1- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 25- | 35 - | 45- | 55- | 65- | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary Males | 2 | — | — | — | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| „ Females | 1 | — | — | — | — | 9 | 2 | 2 | — | — | 1 | 8 |
| Non-Pulmonary Males | — | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | — | 7 |
| „ Females | — | 5 | 1 | — | 1 | - | — | — | — | — | - | 7 |
The source or sources from which information as to the above-mentioned cases was obtained should be stated below:—
| Source of Information. | No. of Cases. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | ||
| Death Returns | from local Registrars | 2 | 5 |
| transferable deaths from Registrar-General | 3 | 4 | |
| Posthumous notifications | 11 | 4 | |
| " Transfers " from other areas (other than transferable deaths) | 5 | 1 | |
| Other sources if any (specify).—Form II. (discharge notices) | 2 | — | |
NOTES.—Part II.
(a) New cases of tuberculosis first coming to knowledge otherwise than by formal notification may, in some instances, afterwards be formally notified under the
Regulations. Should such formal notification be received within the same year as that in which the case first came to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health,
it should be recorded as a "Primary Notification," and excluded from the Supplemental Return. If the formal notification is received in a subsequent year, such
notification should be regarded as duplicate, as the case has already been included in the Supplemental Return for a previous year.
(b) A formal notification which is not received until after the death of the patient should be included in the Supplemental Return as a "posthumous notification."
(c) Particulars of cases coming to knowledge through the Death Returns, as well as of cases notified posthumously, are required by Article 10 (2) of the
Regulations to be entered in the Notification Register. It follows that such cases will also be duly included in the number of cases removed from the Register during the
year by reason of "death."—(cf. Head 3 of the second section of Part III. of the form overleaf.)
(d) No case should be includ both in the Summary of Notifications and in the Supplemental Return for the same year.
(e) In Counties, the particulars for the purposes of this Return should be obtained by the procedure suggested in paragraph 2 of Part II. of Circular 549.