[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page 144

London County Council 1950

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

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Table 11(a)—Tuberculosis—Primary notifications in London during the year 1950

Form of tuberculosis notified	Sex	Number of formal primary notifications of new cases of tuberculosis											Total all ages
Form of tuberculosis notified	Sex	0-	1-	5-	10-	15-	20-	25-	35-	45-	55-	05 +	Total all ages
Pulmonary tuberculosis	m.	13	149	84	57	265	350	683	413	408	356	181	2,959
Pulmonary tuberculosis	F.	13	103	68	72	311	506	644	279	120	71	43	2,230
Other forms of tuberculosis	m.	2	32	34	16	24	32	39	19	12	11	6	227
Other forms of tuberculosis	F.	4	36	25	24	25	44	69	45	18	5	7	302
All forms of tuberculosis	M.	15	181	118	73	289	382	722	432	420	367	187	3,186
All forms of tuberculosis	F.	17	139	93	96	336	550	713	324	138	76	50	2,532

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Table 11(6)—New cases of tuberculosis in London recorded by means other than notification, 1950

Form of tuberculosis	Sex	New cases of tuberculosis coming to knowledge otherwise than by formal notification											Total
Form of tuberculosis	Sex	0-	1-	5-	10-	15-	20-	25-	35-	45-	55-	65 +	Total
Pulmonary tuberculosis	M.	3	31	21	17	37	168	361	155	133	93	95	1,114
Pulmonary tuberculosis	F.	1	23	21	8	49	201	362	115	54	31	32	897
Other forms of tuberculosis	M.	3	4	5	6	4	8	17	8	5	3	3	66
Other forms of tuberculosis	F.	4	4	4	4	9	20	25	8	5	2	6	91
All forms of tuberculosis	m.	6	35	26	23	41	176	378	163	138	96	98	1,180
All forms of tuberculosis	F.	5	27	25	12	58	221	387	123	59	33	38	988

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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 registers	138	9
Death returns	1 transferable deaths from Registrar-General	100	34
		44	8
"Transfers" from other areas		1,688	97
Other sources		41	9

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Table ll(c)—Numbers on the registers, for the whole county, 1942-1950

	1942	1943	1944	1945	1940	1947	1948	1949	1950
Cases on the register at the end of the year—
Pulmonary—
Males	12,894	13,608	14,340	15,018	15,695	16,374	17,224	18,203	19,090
Females	9,441	10,232	10,990	11,496	12,262	12.862	13,549	14,223	15,031
Other forms—
Males	2,785	2,847	2,866	2,813	2,821	2,699	2,889	2,752	2,591
Females	2,963	3,074	3,185	3,123	3,099	3,142	3,147	3,015	3,068
Total	28,083	29,761	31,381	32,450	33,877	35,077	36,809	38,193	39,780
No. per 1,000 of population	11.7	11.9	12.7	12.5	10.9	10.6	11.0	11.3	11.7