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Marylebone 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE 25.
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 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5—15 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — |
| 15—25 | 15 | 18 | — | — | 6 | 6 | — | 1 |
| 25—35 | 15 | 14 | — | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| 35—45 | 12 | 6 | — | — | 9 | 3 | — | — |
| 45—55 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| 55—65 | 7 | 1 | — | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 65 and upwards | 5 | 4 | — | — | 6 | 4 | — | — |
| Totals | 62 | 49 | 7 | 8 | 36 | 21 | 2 | 3 |
*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, in respect of the first three quarters, 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.
Table 26 gives information regarding notifications and the localisation of the
disease. The total number of cases of tuberculosis remaining at the 31st December,
1939, on the register of notifications kept by the Medical Officer of Health was
555, two more than at the end of the previous year.
From time to time reference is made to the difficulty associated with the
obtaining of notifications sufficiently early, and the following figures are of interest
in this connection:—
1. Total number of deaths from tuberculosis in the borough 62
2. Number of cases unnotified or notified at death 12
3. Number of cases notified within a month of death 5
4. Number of cases notified within three months of death 6
5. Number of cases notified within six months of death 3
Ten cases of tuberculosis were unnotified at death. The ratio of non-notified
tuberculosis deaths to total tuberculosis deaths was therefore 1:6.
The institution of proceedings was not called for in regard to any case of wilful
neglect or refusal to notify.
There was no evidence of excessive incidence of, or mortality from, tuberculosis
in any particular occupation in the Borough.