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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
Edmonton 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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Details as to the form and age of patients affected, etc., are given in the subjoined table.
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulm. | Non-Pulm. | Pulm. | Non-Pulm. | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 year | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1— 5 years | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 5—10 „ | 7 | 3 | — | — | — | 1 | ||
| 3 | 3 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 7 | 9 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | ||
| 13 | 14 | 3 | — | — | — | |||
| 25—35 ,, | 13 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 4 | r | — | |
| 35—45 ,, | 4 | 4 | 1 | — | 7 | 1 | — | |
| 45—55 ,, | 4 | — | — | 7 | 1 | — | — | |
| 55—65 ,, | 4 | — | — | — | 5 | — | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Totals | 59 | 45 | 13 | 38 | 5 | |||
The Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925, relate
to tuberculous employees in the milk trade. In order to obtain the necessary
information, the occupation of all tuberculous persons are carefully enquired
into and transmitted to the Medical Officer of Health by the doctor in charge
of the local tuberculosis dispensary. There is no onus on the employee
himself unless he knows that he is suffering from tubercle, the result will be
that such employee will carefully refrain from seeing his own doctor or going
to the Dispensary, as it will almost certainly mean his losing his occupation if
he is found to be so suffering.
Up to the present no such individual has voluntarily given the information,
nor has any person concerned in the milk trade been notified as suffering from
respiratory tuberculosis.
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