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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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Table: The source or sources from which information as to the above-mentioned cases was obtained arc stated below: —

The source or sources from which information as to the above-mentioned cases was obtained arc stated below: —

Source of InformationNo, of Cases.
PulmonaryNon-Pulmonary
Death ReturnsFrom local Registrars—1
Transferable deaths from Registrar General51
Post-humous notifications2—
"Transfers" from other areas (other than transferable deaths)42
Other Sources if any (specify)—1

Table: Notification Register.

Notification Register.

PulmonaryNon-pulmonaryTotal Cases
MalesFemalesTotalMalesFemalesTotal
Number of cases of Tuberculosis remaining at the 31st December 1933, on the Registers of Notifications16492256402767323
Number of cases removed from the Registers during the year by reason inter alia of:-
Withdrawal of notification-------
Recovery from the disease-113-34
Death231235-2237

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Tuberculosis Notifications.
Excluding duplicates the total number of notifications received on Form A
or B during the year 1933 was 43; 10 other cases were brought to my knowledge
(making 59 new eases in the year). These were:—Private eases 12, hospital
cases 25, Public Assistance cases 7, from death returns 7, transfer from other
districts 6, and 2 were posthumous notification.
Of the 59 eases entered on the Register in 1933, 50 were pulmonary tuberculosis
and 9 non-pulmonary tuberculosis. Fifty-two of the cases were removed
for treatment to hospital, sanatorium.
Sleeping Conditions.
In 38 of the 59 new cases of tuberculosis in 1933 it was possible to obtain
information as to the sleeping conditions at the date of notification, Nine of
the remaining cases were residents in common lodging houses; in five eases
incorrect addresses were given, or the patients no longer resided in the Borough.
In three where the patients had died before notification no information was
obtainable and four were temporary residents at hotels
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