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London County Council 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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The number of primary notifications in metropolitan boroughs during the year
1934, after correction of figures within each metropolitan borough by the exclusion of
cases notified as primary but subsequently found to have been previously notified,
was 7,087, the corresponding figure for 1933 being 7,139. The following is an analysis
of the notifications in London during the year 1934.
Form of tuberculosis
notified.
Sex.
Number of
formal primary notifications of new cases of tuberculosis.
Total
notifica
tions.
0. 1. 5. 10. 15. 20. 25. 35. 45. 55. 65+
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Other forms of tuberculosis
All forms of tuberculosis
M. 3 38 60 90 271 493 751 584 597 375 159 3,421 4,580
F. 2 28 57 101 364 574 709 296 212 115 50 2,508 3,394
M. 7 95 129 90 68 66 83 31 18 23 12 622 737
F. 5 71 99 56 60 62 91 38 28 17 9 536 635
M. i 10 133 189 180 339 559 834 615 615 398 171 4,043 5,317
F. 7 99 156 157 424 636 800 334 240 132 59 3,044 4,029
In addition to the primary cases shown in the above table, a number of cases came to the knowledge of medical officers of health, otherwise than by notification. These figures include cases not notified until after death:—
| Form of tuberculosis notified. | Sex. | New eases of tuberculosis coming to knowledge otherwise thanby formal notification. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0- | 1- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65+ | Total | ||
| Pulmonary tuberculosis. | M. | 5 | 5 | 14 | 8 | 21 | 74 | 151 | 121 | 109 | 79 | 40 | 627 |
| F. | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 35 | 81 | 115 | 61 | 36 | 28 | 18 | 395 | |
| Other forms of tuberculosis | M. | 7 | 38 | 29 | 35 | 15 | 18 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 185 |
| F. | 5 | 32 | 28 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 32 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 188 | |
| All forms of tuberculosis | M. | 12 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 36 | 92 | 167 | 131 | 112 | 86 | 47 | 812 |
| F. | 6 | 35 | 33 | 29 | 56 | 105 | 147 | 73 | 44 | 34 | 21 | 583 | |
The sources of information as to the unnotified cases shown in the above table were as follows:—
| Source of information. | Number of cases. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non.pulmonary. | ||
| Death returns | from local registrars | 165 | 83 |
| 131 | 54 | ||
| Posthumous notifications | 51 | 36 | |
| "Transfers" from other areas | 629 | 193 | |
| Other sources | 46 | 7 | |
The returns received under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1930, from the medical officers of health of the metropolitan boroughs show that
there were 27,095 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis (15,512 males and 11,583 females)
and 9,862 cases of other forms of tuberculosis (5,088 males and 4,774 females) on
the registers of the metropolitan boroughs at the end of 1934.
The following table has been prepared from quarterly returns supplied by the
medical officers of health of the metropolitan boroughs as to the number of cases
added to and removed from the notification registers in each borough during the
registration year, and the numbers remaining on the registers at the beginning and