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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hornsey 1958
[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 1957 was 993, viz., pulmonary 894, non-pulmonary 99.
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | ||
| (a) | Number of Cases on Register at commencement of year | 539 | 355 | 54 | 45 | 593 | 400 |
| (b) | Number of Cases notified for first time during year under Regulations | 29 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 28 |
| (c) | Cases restored to Register | 3 | 2 | . | • | 3 | 2 |
| (d) | Cases added to Register otherwise than by notification under Regulations (1) Transferred from other Districts | 31 | 27 | . | 1 | 31 | 28 |
| (2) From Death Returns | 5 | 2 | . | . | 5 | 2 | |
| (e) | Number of Cases removed from Register | 78 | 46 | 1 | 79 | 50 | |
| Number of Cases remaining on Register at end of year | 529 | 367 | 55 | 43 | 584 | 410 | |
Cases removed from Register shown under (s) 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 | TOTAL | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F |
| 3 | 19 | 11 | 49 | PULMONARY | 2 | 8 | 1 | 78 | 46 | ||
| 29 | 2 | ||||||||||
| . | . | 1 | 3 | . | NON-PULMONARY 1 | . | . | . | 1 | 4 | |
| According to the return of deaths by the Registrar General a female between 45 and 64 years of age died of non-pulmonary tuberculosis, but no record of this death can be traced locally. | |||||||||||