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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Table VI. Tuberculosis Notifications. 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 | 507 |
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 | 56 | 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 |
1927 | 103 | 67 | 24 | 1 | 195 | 21 | 29 | 50 | 245 |
1928 | 97 | 61 | 27 | 2 | 187 | 22 | 27 | 49 | 236 |
1929 | 106 | 105 | 42 | 6 | 259 | 14 | 28 | 42 | 301 |
(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 39 deaths from Tuberculosis (23
males and 16 females) during 1929 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, of inmates of
asylums, etc., and the cause of death in some cases was only discovered
on post-mortem examination. These 39 non-notified deaths gave a
percentage of 31.4 of the total deaths from Tuberculosis for the year.
The total number of cases of Tuberculosis on the Register at the end
of 1929 was 1,571 as compared with 1,489 at the end of the year 1928.
The Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1924.
The number of unnotified deaths is much higher this year, having
risen from 23 to 39; the corresponding percentage proportions are 21.3
per cent. (1928) and 31.4 per cent. (1929). Enquiries were made, but
in no instance did there appear to be neglect to notify a case on the part
of a medical practitioner, who in the majority of cases was only called
in when the patient was in an advanced stage of the disease. In 7 instances
the diagnosis was made as a result of post-mortem examination.