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City of Westminster 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Table XL.—Tuberculosis—Cases on the Register.
| Pulmonary. | non-Pulmonary. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | |
| Number of cases on register at beginning of year 1938 | 819 | 392 | 162 | 192 |
| Notified for the first time during year | 111 | 77 | 20 | 21 |
| 930 | 469 | 182 | 213 | |
| Removed from the register on account of death or removal etc., from Westminster | 64 | 43 | 6 | 6 |
| 866 | 426 | 176 | 207 | |
Of the 119 cases removed from the register during the year 1938,
68 were on account of death, 48 persons suffering from tuberculosis
moved from the City and notification was withdrawn in 3 cases.
The total number of cases of tuberculosis on the Register at the end
of 1938 was 1,675 (as compared with 1,565 at the end of the year 1937),
of which 1,292 were pulmonary cases, consisting of 866 males and 426
females.
Deaths from Tuberculosis.—The total number of deaths from tuberculosis
for 1938 (all forms) was 70—males 46, females 24. This gives a
death-rate for this disease of 0.56 per 1,000.
The following table shows deaths per 100,000 population since 1924.
Table XLI.
| Years. | Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | Total. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Rates. | Deaths. | Rates. | Deaths. | Rates. | |
| 1924 annual | 124 | 86.7 | 14 | 9.9 | 138 | 96.5 |
| 1925 | 115 | 82.3 | 14 | 10.0 | 129 | 92.4 |
| 1926 | 119 | 85.9 | 14 | 10.1 | 133 | 96.0 |
| 1927 | 100 | 73.2 | 14 | 10.2 | 114 | 83.5 |
| 1928 | 90 | 69.3 | 18 | 13.8 | 108 | 83.2 |
| 1929 | 113 | 81.8 | 11 | 8.7 | 124 | 98.8 |
| 1930 | 98 | 77.9 | 9 | 7.1 | 107 | 85.0 |
| 1931 | 105 | 90.8 | 16 | 13.8 | 121 | 104.6 |
| 1932 | 90 | 71.2 | 16 | 12.6 | 106 | 83.8 |
| 1933 | 92 | 72.8 | 9 | 71 | 101 | 79.9 |
| 1934 | 83 | 66.9 | 16 | 12.8 | 99 | 79.8 |
| 1935 | 61 | 49.0 | 6 | 4.8 | 67 | 53.8 |
| 1936 | 82 | 66.0 | 8 | 6.4 | 90 | 72.5 |
| 1937 | 84 | 67.5 | 10 | 8.0 | 94 | 75.6 |
| 1938 | 62 | 49.8 | 8 | 6.4 | 70 | 56.1 |