Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Table VI. The figures for a series of years are shown below:—
Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Total of all forms. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
General Population. | C.L.H. and no Address. | Total. | |||||||
Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | Total. | |||
1912 | 233 | 154 | 115 | 10 | 512 | — | — | 59 | 571 |
1913 | 203 | 174 | 89 | 8 | 474 | 91 | 86 | 177 | 651 |
1914 | 186 | 105 | 94 | 4 | 390 | 34 | 38 | 72 | 462 |
1915 | 155 | 95 | 59 | 8 | 317 | 46 | 26 | 72 | 389 |
1916 | 183 | 135 | 64 | 9 | 391 | 42 | 39 | 81 | 472 |
1917 | 209 | 164 | 51 | 7 | 431 | 42 | 34 | 76 | 607 |
1918 | 293 | 225 | 40 | 4 | 562 | 50 | 55 | 105 | 667 |
1919 | 197 | 122 | 30 | 4 | 353 | 35 | 23 | 58 | 411 |
1920 | 143 | 133 | 29 | 4 | 309 | 29 | 29 | 58 | 367 |
1921 | 118 | 114 | 37 | 2 | 271 | 19 | 22 | 41 | 312 |
1922 | 119 | 110 | 42 | 2 | 273 | 24 | 30 | 54 | 327 |
1923 | 111 | 114 | 42 | 1 | 268 | 24 | 32 | 66 | 324 |
1924 | 140 | 122 | 33 | 1 | 296 | 27 | 24 | 51 | 347 |
1925 | 108 | 92 | 27 | 1 | 228 | 23 | 31 | 54 | 282 |
1926 | 117 | 90 | 29 | 4 | 240 | 18 | 30 | 48 | 288 |
(Military cases which were excluded during the war were again made notifiable in 1920.)
A return required by the Ministry is appended, also a table showing
the distribution of the cases in the various wards of the city.
Non-notified Deaths.—There were 32 deaths from Tuberculosis (22
males and 10 females) during 1926 of persons who had not been notified
in Westminster. The majority of these had been notified elsewhere,
some were sudden deaths of visitors to this country, and the cause of death
in some cases was only discovered on post-mortem examination. These
32 non-notified deaths gave a percentage of 24.0 of the total deaths from
Tuberculosis for the year.
The total number of cases of Tuberculosis on the Register at the end
of 1926 was 1,889, as compared with 1,805 at the end of the year 1925.
Table VII.
Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | |
Number of cases on Register at beginning of year 1926 | 811 | 578 | 190 | 226 |
Notified for the first timo during year | 146 | 94 | 18 | 30 |
957 | 672 | 208 | 256 | |
Removed from the Register on account of death or removal from Westminster | 102 | 79 | 11 | 12 |
855 | 593 | 197 | 244 |