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Holborn 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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Tuberculosis.
Summary of Notifications and Deaths.
The following table gives the number of new cases of tuberculosis and deaths from the disease in the Borough during 1929 in the form required by the Ministry of Health:—
| Age periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | — | — | - | - | - | - | — | — |
| l | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 5 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | — |
| 10 | 1 | — | — | - | — | - | — | |
| 15 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | — | — |
| 20 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | — |
| 25 | 5 | 8 | — | — | 7 | 4 | 1 | |
| 35 | 15 | 6 | 1 | — | 12 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 45 | 6 | 5 | — | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | — |
| 55 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | 4 | — | — |
| 65 | 7 | 2 | — | — | 3 | 1 | — | — |
| 44 | 32 | 7 | 5 | 28 | 15 | 2 | 1 | |
The initiation of the Tuberculosis Care Committee as a local institution and
the administrative change whereby all correspondence concerning tuberculous
patients is sent to the Borough Medical Officer of Health continue to prove
beneficial; knowledge of the patients thus made available for the local public
health staff is increased in a natural and easy way and the interest in the work
encouraged.
Total number of cases on the Register of Tuberculosis in the
Borough on the 31st December, 1929 320
Number of these patients residing in common lodging houses 32
The average number of cases notified annually during the
past ten years 95
The number notified in the year 1929 88
Of the 88 cases notified in 1929, the number who attended
the Dispensary 34
Total number of new cases examined at the Dispensary for
the first time in 1929, including the above 34, and all
contacts 173
Total attendances at the Dispensary in 1929 860