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Shoreditch 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1912.Table VIII.—Summary of Notifications duking the Period from the 4th January, 1925, to the 2nd January, 1926, in the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.

PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1912.

Table VIII.—Summary of Notifications duking the Period from the 4th January, 1925, to the 2nd January, 1926, in the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.

Age-periods.Notifications on Form A.Notifications on Form b.Number of Notifications on Form C.
Number of Primary Notifications.Number of Primary Notifications.
0 to 1.1 to 5.5 to 10.10 to 15.15 to 20.20 to 2525 to 35.35 to 45.45 to 55.55 to 65.65 and upwards.Total Primary Notifications.Total Notifications on Form A.Under 55 to 10.10 to 15.Total Primary Notifications.Total Notifications on Form 13.Poor Law Institu- tions.Sanatoria.
Pulmonary, Males......2l1320273126236149247...............67112
„ Females...l6815102114108194150...............2655
Non-pulmonary, Males2115839...1.........3242...............820
,, Females198252......1......2836...............916
Cols. (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(G)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)

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Patients notified as suffering from both pulmonary and non-pulmonary disease are included in the "pulmonary" returns.
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 Shoreditch.
A School Medical Inspector is required to notify on Form B all cases of tuberculosis discovered in the course of inspection
of children attending public elementary schools whether or not these have been previously notified.
Cols. 2-13. Only those cases which have been notified for the first time during the year on Form A, and which have never
previously been notified in Shoreditch, either on Form A or on Form B, are included in these returns.
Col. 14. 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, and which have never
previously been notified in Shoreditch, either on Form A or on Form B, are included in these columns.
Col. 19. All notifications which have been made during the year on Form B, 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 included in this column.