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In accordance with the suggestions of the Ministry of Health,
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 other action during 1938 in this connection.
Deaths from Tuberculosis, 1938.
Deaths from Tuberculosis registered as belonging to Battersea
numbered 101, of which 88 (i.e. 87.1 per cent.) were due to pulmonary
tuberculosis, 6 (i.e. 5.9 per cent.) to tubercular meningitis
and 7 (i.e. 6.9 per cent.) to other forms of the disease.
The death-rate from Tuberculosis was the lowest yet recorded
in Battersea, being 71.28 per 100,000 population as compared with
85.71 in 1937, 100.34 in 1936, 85.02 in 1935, and 87.5 in 1934.
The death-rate for the pulmonary form of the disease was also the
lowest yet recorded.
The allocation of the deaths according to age and sex, and in
the Wards and Sub-Districts is shown on pages 67 and 68, while
the chart on the following page shows the death-rates from tuberculosis
since 1901.
Of the fatal cases 12 were notified within one month before
death; in 9 cases the notifications were received after death, and
15 cases were not formally notified.
Of the 15 cases in respect of which no primary notification
was received, 13 were patients who died in hospitals or other institutions,
while 2 died at home.
Of the 9 cases notified after death, 7 were in London County
Council's General Hospitals, and 2 from other hospitals.
The death-rates per 100,000 of the population during the past
38 years, in quinquennial averages and in each year since 1935, are
given in the following table:—