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Marylebone 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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who is in an infectious condition, shall be engaged in any form of dairy work involving
the milking of cows, the treatment of milk or the handling of milk containers.
During the year no case occurred which called for attention under the
regulations.
Compulsory Removal of Tuberculous Patients to Hospital.
No action was required during 1938 under section 62 of the Public Health
Act, 1925, which relates to the compulsory removal to hospital of persons suffering
from tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis: New Cases and Mortality.
Table 46, prepared at the request of the Ministry of Health, contains information
with regard to age and sex distribution of all forms of tuberculosis.
TABLE 46.
Tuberculosis: New Cases and Deaths.
| Age Periods. | *NEW CASES. | †DEATHS. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0—1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1—5 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 3 | — |
| 5—10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 2 |
| 10—15 | 1 | 3 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 15—20 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 20—25 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | — |
| 25—35 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | — |
| 35—45 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | — | — |
| 45—55 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | — | 2 |
| 55—65 | 6 | 4 | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | — | — |
| 65 and upwards | 2 | 4 | — | 2 | 3 | 1 | — | 1 |
| Totals | 72 | 51 | 16 | 15 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 5 |
| * Including all primary notifications and also any other new cases of tuberculosis which came to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year. | ||||||||
Excluding deaths occurring in the district amongst temporary residents, which were transferred
to another district, but including deaths occurring outside the district amongst
persons normally resident in the district. Subject to this, the figures in the table relate to
the total deaths in the district during the year.
Tuberculosis Notifications.
In all, 129 notifications were received, 105 relating to pulmonary tuberculosis,
the remainder (24) to cases in which structures other than the lungs were affected.
Table 47 gives information regarding the localisation of the disease, while
Table 48 contains the information required by the Ministry of Health with regard
to notifications.
From time to time reference is made to the difficulty associated with the
obtaining of notifications sufficiently early, and the following figures are introduced
because they are interesting in this connection. They relate, in some instances,
as will be seen, to cases in which death had taken place before the fact that the
individual was suffering from the disease had been brought to the notice of the
Medical Officer of Health, as required by the regulations:—