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City of Westminster 1935

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

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Table: Table XLIII. Tubeiiculosis Notifications. The figures for a series of years are shown below:—

Table XLIII. Tubeiiculosis 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.
1916183135649391423981472
1917209164517431423476507
19182932254045625055105667
1919197122304353352358411
1920143133294309292958367
1921118114372271192241312
1922119110422273243054327
1923111114421268243256324
1924140122331296272451347
192510892271228233154282
192011790294240183048288
192710367241195212950245
19289761272187222749236
1929106105426259142842301
193010469161190243357247
193110886171212202343255
19321368428—248263662310
19331067524—205192241246
19341309427—251312354305
1935936229—184271845229

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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 14 deaths from tuberculosis
during 1935 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 14 non-notified deaths gave a percentage of 20.9 of the total
deaths from tuberculosis for the year.
The total number of cases of tuberculosis on the Register at the end
of 1935 was 1,474 (as compared with 1,400 at the end of the year 1934),
of which 1,117 were pulmonary cases, consisting of 746 males and 371
females.