Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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The total number of cases on the Tuberculosis Register at the end of 1948 was 1,324, viz.,
pulmonary 1,069, non-pulmonary 255, an increase of 35 on the total for last year.
Pulmonary | Non- Pulmonaiy | Total | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
(a) Number of Cases on Register at Commencement of 1948 | 556 | 477 | 136 | 120 | 692 | 597 |
(b) Number of Cases notified for first time during year under Regulations | 58 | 55 | 4 | 10 | 62 | 65 |
(c) Cases restored to Register during 1948 | I | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 2 |
(d) Cases added to Register otherwise than by notifications under Regulations : | ||||||
(1) Transferred from other Districts | 21 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 14 |
(2) From Death Returns | 5 | 1 | _ | — | 5 | 1 |
(e) Number of Cases removed from Register during 1948 | 69 | 51 | 12 | 7 | 81 | 58 |
(f) Number of Cases remaining on Register at end of 1948 | 572 | 497 | 131 | 124 | 703 | 621 |
Cases removed from the Register shown under (e) are accounted for as follows :—
Found not to be T.B. | Recovered | Removed to another area | Died at home | Died at Sanatorium or other Institution | TOTALS | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F |
Pulm onary | |||||||||||
4 | — | 16 | 14 | 26 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 69 | 51 |
Non-Pu lmonary | |||||||||||
— | — | 7 | 2 | 4 | 5 | - | 1 | ~ | 12 | 7 |