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Croydon 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Notification Register.

Number of cases of Tuberculosis remaining on the Notification register on the 31st December, 1934:—

Table IV.

pulmonaryNON-PULMONARYTotal Cases
MalesFemalesTotalMalesFemalesTotal
6035101,1131351492841, 397

Number of cases removed from the Registers during the yea and the reasons for such removal.

Pulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.Total Cases.
Males.Females.Total.Males.Females.Total.
1. Withdrawal of Notification5152033626
2. Recovery from the Disease6253118143263
3. Death85711569615171

The periodic medical examination of the whole population, as
is now applied to public Elementary School children would, in the
case of this one disease alone, probably be an economic asset.
In 26.4% notification preceded death by less than six months.
For Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis the proportion of non-notified
fatal cases to the total deaths from this form of the disease was
61.5%. In other words, out of a total of 13 deaths, 8 were not
notified during life; only 1 of these 8 cases died at home. The
other 7 cases died in Hospital.
Of the total deaths from Tuberculosis of all forms, 22 or
14.01%, were not notified prior to death, compared with 12.5% in
1933.
Interval Between Notification and Death From Pulmonary
Tuberculosis in Cases Dying in 1934.
The following Table shows the intervals of time elapsing
between the date of notification of a patient as suffering from
Pulmonary Tuberculosis and the date of his death from that complaint.
In the total of 144 deaths during 1934, 32 (22.2%) were
either not notified at all or only notified within a month prior to