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including the cases of pulmonary tuberculosis notified during the month of
January, 905 persons were certified for the first time during the year as suffering
from various forms of tuberculosis, principally of the lungs, and of these some 557
were males and 348 females.
The distribution of the cases notified according to age periods and localities
is shown in Table II. (Appendix). The cases were most numerous in proportion
to population in Whitmore Ward, where they amounted to 10.2 per
1,000 inhabitants, and least in Moorfields Ward, where the rate was 5.1 per
1,000 population.
Where the patients were not inmates of public institutions in the Borough, and
also where patients were not attending the tuberculosis dispensary, the addresses
given on the certificates were visited by the Sanitary Inspectors and Health
Visitors. In a number of instances the patients were brought under the Tuberculosis
Dispensary, being referred thereto by the Council's officers. As far as
practicable steps were taken with a view to preventing the spread of infection,
and for securing such measures for the disinfection of dwellings and the removal
of insanitary conditions as appeared necessary.
Inquiries by the Sanitary Inspectors and Health Visitors were made as
regards some 525 of the cases certified. In 326 the patients were males, their
occupations being as follows:—Horses and vehicles, such as carmen and coachmen
27, bottles and glass 6, packers 10, porters in various trades 18, bootmaking
10, metal and machinery G, labourers in various trades 27, building
trades 15, barmen and potmen 5; furniture, cabinet-making, upholstery, &c., 41;
hawkers and street sellers 15, warehousemen 8, rag and bone dealers 4, cardboard
box making 5, leather workers 8, municipal employees 5, printing and
stationery 20; clerks, travellers, and agents, 7; packing-case and wooden box
making 8, walking-sticks 2, dress and tailoring 5, wheelwrights 2, soldiers 2,
employed in connection with food 8, school boys 31, police force 1, liftman 1,
church verger 1, toymaker 1, tobacco-pipe maker 1, window cleaner 1, bone
worker 1, hairdressers 2, picture-frame maker 1, gold beater 1, opera glass maker 1,
wood carver 1, street organist 1, pugilist 1, horsehair dresser 1, tea blender 1,
stoker 1 and gilder 1; seven gave no occupation, and five were children under
school age.
Of 199 female patients 61 were housewives, 28 school-girls, 8 were under school
age, 8 worked in leather, 13 paper-bag and box-making, 4 laundries, 3 were street
sellers, 19 were employed in tailoring and dressmaking, 9 were machinists,
7 charwomen and office cleaners, 4 domestic service, 3 were packers, 5 factory
hands, 4 were engaged in printing and stationery trades, 3 were waitresses, 3 gave
no occupation, 1 was an optician's assistant, 1 a warehouse assistant, 1 a nurse,