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Bromley 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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control demands very close co-ordination between the county
councils, county districts, clinics, institutions and genoral
practitioners. We are not without evidence of the need of
tightening up the transmission of information between the
authorities concerned regarding movements of tubercular
patients from one area to another. In practice one suspects
that dual notification of the old quiescent cases is a factor
not to be overlooked in regard to the increased incidence of
cases when at the present time such considerable movement of
population is occurring. In the last war there was a brisk
rise in tuberculosis which fell away again in 1919, and
since the outbreak of the present hostilities there has been
a marked increase throughout the country.
New Cases and Mortality, 1941.
| New Cases notified or otherwise revealed. X | Deaths. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age periods. | Respiratory. | Non- Respiratory. | Respiratory. | Non-Respiratory | ||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1-5 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 5-15 | 1 | 4 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 15-25 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| 25 - 55 | 4 | 7 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | - |
| 35 - 45 | 4 | 5 | 1 | - | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| 45 - 55 | 8 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| 55 - 65 | 2 | 5 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| 65 & over | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Totals | 34 | 32 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 2 |
X In addition inward transfer p atients as follows:Respiratory
- Male 6.
Female 12.
Non-Respiratory - Male
Female 1.
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925,
and Public Health Act, 1936, Section 172.
No action under these enactments was necessary during
1941.
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY.
Dr. S. Roy. C. Price, Tuberculosis Officer, has kindly
furnished the following brief summary of work in respect of