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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
Holborn 1933
[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 1933 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | _ |
| 1 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | 2 |
| 6 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | |
| 1 | 2 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| 20 | 4 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | ||
| 6 | 2 | — | 6 | 5 | — | — | ||
| — | — | 6 | 1 | — | — | |||
| 4 | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | — | ||
| — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 1 | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | — | ||
| 5 | 12 | — | 2 | |||||
Total number of cases on the Register of Tuberculosis in the
Borough on the 31st December, 1933 323
Number of these patients residing in common lodging houses 56
The average number of cases notified annually during the
past ten years 04
The number notified in the year 1033 50
Of tho 50 cases notified in 1033, tiie number who attended
the Dispensary 21
Total number of new cases examined at tho Dispensary for
tho first timo in 1033, including the above 20, and all
contacts 95
Total attendances at the Dispensary in 1932 981
Supervision of home conditions; visits paid by—
Tuberculosis Officer 30
Dispensary Nurse 1,17ft