Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930.
The following table, compiled from the Register of Notifications
kept in pursuance of Article 10 of the Tuberculosis Regulations, 1930,
indicates the number and distribution of cases during the year.
At the present time nine discharged soldiers in receipt of a pension
for tuberculosis are resident in Hampstead. The number of cases of
tuberculosis known to the department at the end of 1936 totalled 341
—268 pulmonary and 73 non-pulmonary.
Tuberculosis Regulations,
1930.
Pulmonary. Non-Pulmonary. Totals.
Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females.
Number of cases on the
Register at the commencement
of the year
1936 158 182 47 53 205 235
Number of cases notified
under the Regulations
for the first time during
the year 36 35 14 9 50 44
Number of cases removed
from the Register
in a preceding
year which have been
restored to the Register
during the year — 2 — — — 2
Number of cases brought
under notice otherwise
than by notification
during the year 10 17 6 5 16 22
204 236 67 67 271 303
*Number of cases removed
from the
Register during the
year 83 89 26 35 109 124
Number of cases remaining
on the Register
at the end of the
year 121 147 41 32 162 179
*These consist of cases which have been denotified, and those which have died or removed
from the Borough,