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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
Paddington 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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1927.
No. of Notifications on Forms C and D.
| Poor Law Institutions. | Sanatoria. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| c. | d. | c. | d. | |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis— | ||||
| Male | 31 | 43 | 86 | 65 |
| Female | 34 | 27 | 74 | 46 |
| Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis— | ||||
| Male | 3 | 6 | 27 | 15 |
| Female | 3 | 6 | 13 | 9 |
C—Upon admission.
D—Upon discharge.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1921.
| Cases removed from Register:— By reason of— | 1927 |
| Death | 127 |
| Removal | 314 |
| Recovery of patient or variation of diagnosis | 174 |
| Total | 615 |
Visits Paid to Homes of Tuberculous Patients.
| By Council's Women Inspectors | 2,191 |
| By Tuberculosis Officers | 611 |
| By Dispensary Nurses— | |
| 20, Talbot Road | 2,989 |
| St. Mary's Hospital | 1,719 |
| 7,510 |
Of the patients who removed from the Borough during 1927, the new addresses were
obtainable in 114 instances, and particulars of the cases were transmitted to the Medical
Officers of Health of the respective districts.
In 1927, 8 cases of patients who had removed into the Borough from other districts were
added to the register.
The number of cases remaining on the Tuberculosis Register at the close of 1927 was
1,577 as compared with 1,801 at the close of the year 1926.
Tuberculosis. New Cases and Mortality During 1927.
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | N on-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | N on-Pulmonary. | |||||
| m. | f. | m. | f. | M. | f. | m. | f. | |
| 0– | – | – | – | 3 | – | 1 | – | – |
| 1– | – | – | 17 | 15 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 |
| 5– | – | 2 | 47 | 30 | – | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 10– | 1 | 1 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| 15– | 10 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 19 | 4 | 4 |
| 20– | 8 | 28 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| 25– | 32 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 1 | – |
| 35– | 27 | 17 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 45– | 22 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 1 |
| 55– | 8 | 2 | – | 1 | ||||
| 65 and upwards | 3 | 2 | – | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals | 111 | 101 | 88 | 81 | 50 | 46 | 10 | 12 |