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City of Westminster 1934

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

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Table: Table XLVI. TUBERCULOSIS Notifications. The figures for a series of years are shown below:—

Table XLVI.

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.
191515595598317462672389
1916183135649391423981472
1917209164517431423476507
19182932254045625055105667
1919197122304353352358411
1920143133294309292958367
1921118114372271192241312
1922119110422273243054327
1923111114421268243256324
1924140122331296272451347
192510892271228233154282
192611790294240183048288
192710367241195212950245
19289761272187222749236
1929106105426259142842301
193010469161190243357247
193110886171212202343255
19321368428—248263662310
19331067524-205192241246
19341309427—251312354305

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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 24 deaths from tuberculosis
during 1934 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 24 non-notified deaths gave a percentage of 24.2 of the total
deaths from tuberculosis for the year.
The total number of cases of tuberculosis on the Register at the end
of 1934 was 1,400 (as compared with 1,313 at the end of the year 1933),
of which 1,061 were pulmonary cases, consisting of 705 males and 356
females. Children under 15 years of age number about 80 pulmonary
and 130 non-pulmonary; of these some 25 are in institutions at any one
time, the remainder are attending special or ordinary schools.
(9169) p 2