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City of Westminster 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Table XLIII.
Tuberculosis Notifications. The figures for a series of years are shown below:—
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Total of all form. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Population. | c.l.h. and no Address. | Total. | |||||||
| Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | Total. | |||
| 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 |
| 1920 | 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 |
| 1930 | 104 | 69 | 16 | 1 | 190 | 24 | 33 | 57 | 247 |
| 1931 | 108 | 86 | 17 | 1 | 212 | 20 | 23 | 43 | 255 |
| 1932 | 136 | 84 | 28 | — | 248 | 26 | 36 | 62 | 310 |
| 1933 | 106 | 75 | 24 | _ | 205 | 18 | 22 | 41 | 246 |
| 1934 | 130 | 94 | 27 | — | 251 | 31 | 23 | 54 | 305 |
| 1935 | 93 | 62 | 29 | — | 184 | 27 | 18 | 45 | 229 |
| 1936 | 98 | 72 | 28 | 1 | 199 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 224 |
| 1937 | 110 | 80 | 16 | — | 206 | 23 | 22 | 45 | 251 |
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.—The number of unnotified deaths during the
year was 17; the corresponding percentage proportions are 24.4 per
cent. (1936) and 18.0 per cent. (1937). Enquiries were made, but in
no instance did there appear to be neglect to notify a case on the part
of a medical practitioner. 13 deaths occurred in institutions and 4 at
home.
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925.
The object of these regulations is to prevent anyone who is aware that
he is suffering from an infectious form of tuberculosis from engaging in
certain departments of the milk trade. There was no occasion for
exercising the powers conferred by these regulations during 1937.