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City of Westminster 1938

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

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Table: Table XXXIX. Tuberculosis Notifications. The figures for a series of years are shown below:-

Table XXXIX. Tuberculosis Notifications. The figures for a series of years are shown below:-

Pulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.Total of all forms.
General Population.Resident in Common Lodging Houses and Homeless.Total.
Males.Females.Males.Females.Males.Females.Total.
19182932254045625055105667
1919197122304353352358411
1920143133294309292958367
1921118114372271192241312
1922119110422273243054327
1923111114421268243256324
1924140122331296272451347
192510892271228233154282
192611790294240183048288
192710367241195212950245
19289761272187222749236
1929106105426259142842301
193010469161190243357247
193110886171212202343255
19321368428-248263662310
19331067524-205192241246
19341309427-251312354305
1935936229-184271845229
19309872281199151025224
19371108016-206232245251
19388976221188202141229

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Non-notified Deaths.—The number of unnotified deaths during the
year was 13; the corresponding percentage proportions are 18.0 ner
cent. (1937) and 18.5 per cent. (1938). Enquiries were made, but in
no instance did there appear to be neglect to notify a case on the part
of a medical practitioner. 9 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 1938.