[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page 19

London County Council 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table 11—Tuberculosis—Primary notifications in London during the year 1945

Form of tuberculosis notified	Sex	Number of formal primary notifications of new cases of tuberculosis											Total all ages	Total notifications
Form of tuberculosis notified	Sex	0-	1-	5-	10-	15-	20-	26-	35-	46-	65-	65+	Total all ages	Total notifications
Pulmonary tuberculosis	M.	9	70	69	67	272	368	576	441	425	343	178	2,818	3,238
Pulmonary tuberculosis	F.	3	66	66	59	305	526	546	240	116	97	51	2,075	2,450
Other forms of tuberculosis	M.	4	37	51	42	46	19	48	35	13	6	4	305	363
Other forms of tuberculosis	F.	3	29	48	31	41	49	48	30	15	4	11	309	350
All forms of tuberculosis	M.	13	107	120	109	318	387	624	476	438	349	182	3,123	3,601
All forms of tuberculosis	F.	6	95	114	90	346	575	594	270	131	101	62	2,384	2,800

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Table 12—New cases of tuberculosis in London found by other means than notification

Form of tuberculosis	Sex	New cases of tuberculosis coming to knowledge otherwise than by formal notification
Form of tuberculosis	Sex	0-	1-	5-	10-	15-	20-	25-	35-	45-	55-	65 +	Total
Pulmonary tuberculosis	M.	1	9	13	17	30	114	180	117	93	83	58	715
Pulmonary tuberculosis	F.	-	7	12	13	48	122	170	73	32	15	13	505
Other forms of tuberculosis	M.	2	11	13	16	11	6	23	6	10	2	4	104
Other forms of tuberculosis	F.	2	8	12	17	9	22	8	8	5	5	2	98
All forms of tuberculosis	M.	3	20	26	33	41	120	203	123	103	85	62	819
All forms of tuberculosis	F.	2	15	24	30	57	144	178	81	37	20	15	603

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The sources of information as to the unnotified cases shown above were as follows:—

Source of information		Number of cases
Source of information		Pulmonary	Non-pulmonary
Death returns	from local registrars	99	22
Death returns	transferable deaths from Registrar-General	132	32
Posthumous notifications		51	23
" Transfers " from other areas		878	118
Other sources		60	7

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Table 13—Numbers on the registers, for the whole county, 1940-1945

	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945
Cases on the register at the end of the year—
Pulmonary—
Males	12,908	12,677	12,894	13,608	14,340	15,018
	9,448	9,119	9,441	10,232	10,990	11,496
Other forms—
Males	3,263	2,916	2,785	2,847	2,866	2,813
Females	3,263	3,044	2,963	3,074	3,185	3,123
Total	28,882	27,756	28,083	29,761	31,381	32,450
No. per 1,000 of population	9.4	11.9	11.7	11.9	12.7	12.5