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City of London 1928

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PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1912 & 1924.

Table: Newcases of Tuberculosis which have come to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health or Chief (Administrative) Tuberculosis Officer during the period from 1st January, 1928, to 29th December, 1928,otherwisethan by notification on Form A or Form B.

Newcases of Tuberculosis which have come to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health or Chief (Administrative) Tuberculosis Officer during the period from 1st January, 1928, to 29th December, 1928,otherwisethan by notification on Form A or Form B.

Age periods0 to 11 to 55 to 1010 to 1515 to 2020 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 and upwards.Total Cases.
Pulmonary Males....................................
Pulmonary Females....................................
Non-pulmonary Males.................................
N on-pulmonary Females...1............................l

Table: The source or sources from which information as to the above-mentioned case was obtained is stated below:—

The source or sources from which information as to the above-mentioned case was obtained is stated below:—

Source of Information.No. of Cases.
Pulmonary.Non-pulmonary.
Death Returns (i.e., from local Registrars, or transferable deaths from Registrar General)...1
"Transfers" from other areas (other than transferable deaths)......
Forms C and D (in respect of cases not previously known to the M.O.H.)......
Other Sources, e.g., posthumous notifications......

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Number of cases of Tuberculosis remaining on the Register of Notifications on 31st December, 1928.
PULMONARY. NON-PULMONARY.
Males. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total. Total Cases.
25 20 45 2 2 4 49
SMALL-POX.
In view of the increasing prevalence of Small-pox, one of the provincial cities expressed
the view that the law should be amended so as to provide for compulsory vaccination or
re-vaccination, and in cases where persons had been in contact with, or were suspected of
suffering from Small-pox or other infectious disease, especially in casual wards of Poor Law
Institutions, they should be isolated by order of the Medical Officer of Health for such period
as he deemed necessary. One does, of course, feel sympathy with the general trend of such
a view, but it does not seem probable that so wide a power as that sought is attainable,
and it was with regret that I felt compelled to advise my committee not to support a recommendation
on these lines.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH (NOTIFICATION OF PUERPERAL FEVER AND PUERPERAL PYREXIA)
AMENDMENT REGULATIONS, 1928, AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH (OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM)
AMENDMENT REGULATIONS, 1928.
The above-mentioned regulations, which became operative on the 1st July, 1928,
amend the previous legislations affecting these diseases, and it is now necessary that the
notification be sent to the Medical Officer of Health for the district in which the patient is
actually residing at the time of notification. Notification of cases occurring in hospitals
are to be sent to the Medical Officer of the district in which the place from which the patient
was brought to the hospital is situated. These new regulations were brought to the notice
of medical men practising in the City in accordance with the suggestion made by the Ministry
of Health.
DISTRIBUTION OF DIPHTHERIA ANTI-TOXIN AND ANTI-INFLUENZA VACCINE.
Although City medical practitioners are well aware of the facilities available, no applications
for supplies of diphtheria anti-toxin or anti-influenza vaccine were received during 1928.
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