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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 131
Notification of Tuberculosis.
In December, 1912, the Local Government Board issued a new
Order entitled "The Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1912," which amended and consolidated the previous Regulations.
The new Regulations apply to non-pulmonary as well as
Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and came into force on the 1st
February, 1913.
The total number of cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis notified,
both under the old and the new Regulations, during 1913, was
783, compared with 855 in 1912, 514 in 1911, and 289 in 1910.
Of these 84 were notified in January previous to the new
Regulations coming into force and 699 were notified from the 1st
February, 1913, to the end of the year.
The number of cases shown on Table LXV. does not exactly
correspond with the number in Table LXXIII., as several cases
notified on Form C from Poor Law Institutions and Sanatoria had
not previously been notified to me on Form A, although they may
have been notified to the Medical Officer of Health of other districts,
and also on Table LXXIII. the cases notified up to the 3rd January,
1914, are included.
Of the total cases notified during the year, viz.:—783,154 were
from Clapham, 45 from Putney, 209 from Streatham, 89 from
Tooting, and 286 from Wandsworth, compared with 855 in 1912, of
which 172 were from Clapham, 58 from Putney, 228 from Streatham,
124 from Tooting, and 273 from Wandsworth. There was thus a
decided decrease in all the sub-districts with the exception of Wandsworth,
where there was a slight increase.
One of the cases was under one year of age, 14 from one and
under five years, 88 from five and under 15 years, 167 from 15 and
under 25 years, 345 from 25 and under 45 years, 145 from 45 and
under 65 years, and 23 over 65 years.