[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page 145

London County Council 1951

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

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Table 11(a)-

Administrative County of London -Primary notifications of tuberculosis,1951

Form of tuberculosis notified	Sex	Number of formal primary notifications of new cases of tuberculosis											Total all ages
		0-	1-	5-	10-	15-	20-	25-	35-	45-	55-	65 +
Pulmonary tuberculosis	M.	11	126	91	52	191	309	608	466	400	380	189	2,823
Pulmonary tuberculosis	f.	14	109	76	51	281	435	595	271	122	71	49	2,074
Other forms oftuberculosis	m.	4	25	35	22	19	22	44	18	11	6	10	216
Other forms oftuberculosis	F.	3	33	33	15	36	46	61	35	12	10	7	291
All forms oftuberculosis	M.	15	151	126	74	210	331	652	484	411	386	199	3,039
All forms oftuberculosis	F.	17	142	109	66	317	481	656	306	134	81	56	2,365

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Table 11(B)—

New cases of tuberculosis recorded by means other than notification, 1951

Form of tuberculosis	Sex	New cases of tuberculosis coming to knowledge otherwise than by formal notification											Total
		0-	1-	5-	10-	15-	20-	25-	35-	45-	55-	65 +
Pulmonary tuberculosis	M.	3	16	18	8	36	145	386	177	130	115	106	1,140
Pulmonary tuberculosis	F.	1	17	21	11	46	239	353	107	51	21	25	892
Other forms oftuberculosis	M.	—	1	4	4	12	9	18	9	1	3	5	66
Other forms oftuberculosis	F.	—	4	4	6	4	13	22	7	6	1	9	76
All forms oftuberculosis	M.	3	17	22	12	48	154	404	186	131	118	111	1,206
All forms oftuberculosis	F.	1	21	25	17	50	252	375	114	57	22	34	968

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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	147	18
Death returns	transferable deaths from Registrar-General	81	16
Posthumous notifications		40	4
" Transfers " from other areas		1,706	98
Other sources		58	6

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Table 11(c)—

Numbers on the registers, 1942-51

	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949	1950	1951
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	19,119
Females	9,441	10,232	10,990	11,496	12,262	12,862	13,.549	14,223	15,031	15,556
Other forms—
Males	2,785	2,847	2,866	2,813	2,821	2,699	2,889	2,752	2,591	2,520
Females	2,963	3,074	3,185	3,123	3,099	3,142	3,147	3,015	3,068	2,954
Total	28,083	29,761	31,381	32.450	33,877	35,077	36,809	38,193	39,780	40,149
No per 1,000 of population	11.7	11.9	12.7	12.5	10.9	10.6	11.0	11.3	11.7	12.0