View report page

Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 145
Table LXXIII. is a summary of notifications during the period
from the 1st February, 1913, to the 3rd January, 1914, and has been
prepared at the request of the Local Government Board.
It will be seen that 670 primary notifications of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis were made on Form A, 340 of males and 330 of females,
while the total notifications were 897. 15 cases were notified by
School Medical Officers on Form B, eight of males and seven of
females, while 176 notifications from Poor Law Institutions and
107 from Sanatoria were made on Form C.
The number of notifications on Form B by School Medical
Officers is exceptionally small.
From other forms of Tuberculosis 287 were notified on Form A,
31 by School Medical Officers on Form B, while 16 were notified
from Poor Law Institutions and 10 from Sanatoria on Form C.
It may be stated that notifications on Form A are primary
notifications, i.e., cases not previously notified. Form B are notifications
from School Medical Officers, and Form C are secondary
notifications from Poor Law Institutions and Sanatoria on entering
such Institutions.