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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Croydon 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Age-periods | Notifications on Form A. | Notifications on Form B.† | Number of Notifications on Form C- | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Primary Notifications,* | Total Notifications on Form A | Number of Primary Notifications.* | Total Notifications on Form B, | Poor Law Institutions | Sanatoria | |||||||||||||||
| 0 to 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 55 | 55 to 65 | 65 and upwards | Total Primary Notifications | Under 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | Total Primary Notifications | |||||
| Pulmonary Males | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 62 | 49 | 21 | s | 3 | 187 | 201 | 7 | 4 | ii | ] I | 6 | 43 | |
| ,, Females | 8 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 24 | 42 | 21 | II | 3 | 3 | 143 | *54 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 14 | S | 27 | ||
| Non-pulmonary Males | 5 | IO | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | I | 1 | 43 | 44 | 14 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 3 | ||
| ,, ,, Females | 3 | 7 | IO | 12 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 55 | 53 | IO | 4 | 14 | 14 | 1 | ||||
| Col. (i) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (s) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (n) | (12) | (13) | (14) | (15) | (16) | (17) | (18) | (19) | (20) | (21) |
Patients notified as suffering from both pulmonary and non-pulmonary disease are included among the "pulmonary
returns only
*Primary notifications relate to patients who have not previously been notified in this or former years, either on Form
A or on Form B, in the area to which the return relates. Any additional notification of a case which has been previously
notified in the area is to be regarded as duplicate. (Note—No primary notifications are made on Form C).
+A School Medical Inspector, or the Medical Officer of Health of a county, county borough, or other district, if acting
as a School Medical Inspector, is required to notiiy cn Form B all eases of tuberculosis discovered in the course of
inspection of children attending public elementary schools, whether or not these have previously been notified.
Cols. 2-13. Only those cases which have been notified for the first time during the year on Form A in the area concerned,
and which have never previously been notified in the area, either on Form A or on Form B, are included in these
columns.
Col. 14. The object of this column is to show the extent to which duplicate notification of the same case occurs on
Form A, and all notifications on Form A, whether duplicate or not, are included in this column.
Cols. 15.18. Only those cases which have been notified for the first time during the year on Form B in the area concerned,
and which have never previously been notified in the area, either on Form A or Form B, are included in these
columns.
Col. 19. All notifications which have been made during the year on Form B in the area concerned, whether the cases
have previously been notified in the area, or not, either on Form A or on Form B, are included in this column.
Col. 21. Only notifications on Form C made by the Medical Officers of Sanatoria, as defined in the Tuberculosis Regulations,
are entered in this column.