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London County Council 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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The following is an analysis of the notifications in London during 1925 (52 weeks).
| Form of tuberculosis notified. | Sex. | Notifications on Form A. (Total of primary notifications received in London borough, other than elementary school cases, injra.) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0- | 1- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65 + | Total. | ||
| Pulmonary tuberculosis | M. | 121 | |||||||||||
| F. | 120 | ||||||||||||
| Other tuberculosis | M. | 161 | |||||||||||
| F. | 60 | ||||||||||||
| All forms of tuberculosis | M. | 1,021 | |||||||||||
| F. | 28 | 218 | |||||||||||
The following is an analysis of the notifications in London during 1925 (52 weeks).
| Form of tuberculosis notified. | Sex. | Notifications on Form B. (Primary notifications of cases discovered through medical inspection in elementary schools.) | Notifications on Form C. (Secondary notifications from institutions receiving cases.) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0- | 5- | 10 + | Total. | Poor Law. | Other. | ||
| Pulmonary tuberculosis | M. | 1 | |||||
| F. | — | ||||||
| Other tuberculosis | M. | 1 | 12 | ||||
| F. | 1 | 10 | |||||
| All forms of tuberculosis | M. | 1,206 | |||||
| F. | 1 | ||||||
These figures include cases not notified before death:—
| Form of tuberculosis notified. | Sex. | New cases of tuberculosis coming to knowledge otherwise than by notification on forms A and B. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0- | 1- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65 + | Total. | ||
| Pulmonary tuberculosis ... | M. | 7 | 5 | 16 | 35 | 99 | 71 | 83 | 68 | 30 | 432 | ||
| F. | 6 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 26 | 29 | 73 | 44 | 22 | 29 | 21 | 270 | |
| Other tuberculosis | M. | 25 | 59 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 11 | — | 10 | 2 | 176 |
| F. | 30 | 34 | 20 | 17 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 170 | |
| All forms of tuberculosis ... | M. | 33 | 69 | 27 | 21 | 28 | 45 | 110 | 82 | 83 | 78 | 32 | 608 |
| F. | 36 | 44 | 25 | 22 | 37 | 44 | 85 | 53 | 31 | 35 | 28 | 440 | |
Under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1924, the Medical Officers
of Health are required to prepare, from the register of notified cases of tuberculosis,
a quarterly return showing the number of cases on the register at the commencement
and at the end of the quarter, and the number added to and removed from registers
during the same period. The returns under this order received from the several
metropolitan boroughs, show that at the end of 1925 there were 39,551 cases of
pulmonary tuberculosis (22,600 males and 16,951 females) on the Registers of the
Metropolitan Boroughs and 15,074 cases of other forms of tuberculosis (7,936 males
and 7,138 females).
Administration.
Common and
seamen's
lodginghouses.
The supervision of the 168 common lodging houses licensed by the Council
under the L.C.C. (General Powers) Act, 1902, entailed 9,700 day visits and 373
night visits by the inspectors. The supervision of 33 seamen's lodging houses
licensed under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, entailed 865 visits by day and 81
by night.
Census of
homeless
persons.
A census of homeless persons in London was taken on the night of Friday the
20th February, 1925. The area covered extended over the whole of the county,
except the outlying portions which are not usually the resort of such persons. The