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Islington 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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1928]
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PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1912.
| Age-periods | Notifications on Form A. | Total Notifications on Form A. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Primary Notifications. | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 to 1 | 1 to 6 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 55 | 55 to 65 | 65 and up. | Total Primary Notifications. | |||||
| Pulmonary Males | 4 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 43 | 72 | 61 | 73 | 34 | 7 | 336 | 517 | ||||
| „ Females | — | 3 | 6 | 5 | 42 | 38 | 57 | 36 | 17 | 16 | 6 | 225 | 358 | |||
| Non-pulmonary Males | — | 10 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 51 | 72 | |||
| „ „ Females | 1 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 17 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 71 | 90 | ||||
| Notifications on Form B. | Number of Notifications on Form C. | |||||||||||||||
| Number of Primary Notifications. | Total Notifications on Form B. | Poor Law Institutions. | Sanatoria. | |||||||||||||
| Age-periods | Under 6 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | Total Primary Notifications | ||||||||||||
| Pulmonary Males | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 86 | 218 | ||||||||||
| Females | — | — | — | 84 | 124 | |||||||||||
| Non-pulmonary Males | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 32 | |||||||||
| „ „ Females | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 39 | ||||||||||
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmona | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 year | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| 1-5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 |
| 5-10 | 7 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 2 | — | 3 | 3 |
| 10-15 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 2 | — | 3 |
| 15-20 | 33 | 44 | 6 | 18 | 13 | 14 | 1 | |
| 20-25 | 44 | 39 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 15 | 3 | |
| 25-35 | 76 | 62 | 5 | 13 | 29 | 41 | 1 | 1 |
| 35-45 | 66 | 38 | 6 | 3 | 40 | 20 | — | — |
| 45-55 | 79 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 50 | 15 | — | 1 |
| 55-65 | 42 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 7 | — | 2 |
| 65 and upwards | 10 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | — | 1 |
| Totals | 369 | 246 | 74 | 92 | 188 | 127 | 15 | 22 |
81 Deaths not notified or 23.0 per cent. of Total Deaths.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF
TUBERCULOSIS.
By direction of the Borough Council, the Medical Officer of Health attended
the Conference of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis
which was held in London from the 15-16th October, 1928, and submitted a report
on the proceedings to the Public Health Committee.