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City of Westminster 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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Table: Table VI. The figures for a series of years are shown below:—

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.
19122331541151051259571
19132031748984749186177651
1914186105944390343872462
191515595598317462672389
1916183135649391423981472
1917209164517431423476507
19182932254045625055105667
1919197122304353352358411
1920143133294309292958367
1921118114372271192241312
1922119110422273243054327
1923111114421268243256324
1924140122331296272451347
192510892271228233154282
192611790294240183048288
192710367241195212950245

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(Military cites which were excluded during the war were again mide 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 29 deaths from Tuberculosis (24
males and 5 females) during 1927 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
29 non-notified deaths gave a percentage of 25.4 of the total deaths from
Tuberculosis for the year.
The total number of cases of Tuberculosis on the Register at the end
of 1927 was 1,457, as compared with 1,889 at the end of the year 1926.
The Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1924.
The percentage of unnotified deaths is slightly higher this year, but
the actual number is down from 32 to 29; the corresponding rates are
24.9 per cent. (1926) and 25.4 per cent. (1927). Enquiries were made,
but in no instance did there appear to be neglect on the part of a
medical practitioner to notify a case. In 19 instances the diagnosis
was made as a result of post-mortem examination, some being of the
casual class who had drifted into the infirmary when no longer fit to be
about. Six were cases of tuberculous meningitis in children under five
(9616) d 2