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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

Shoreditch 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1912.

Table: Table VIII.—Summary of Notifications during the Period from the 2nd January, 1927, to the 31st December, 1927, in the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.

Table VIII.—Summary of Notifications during the Period from the 2nd January, 1927, to the 31st December, 1927, in the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.

Age-periods.Notifications on Form A.Notifications on Form B.Number ot Notifications on Form C.
Number of Primary Notifications.Number of Primary Notifications.Total Notifications on Form B.Poor Law Institutions.Sanatoria.
0 to 1.1 to 5.5 to 10.10 to 15.15 to 20.20 to 25.25 to 35.35 to 45.45 to 55.55 to G5.65 and upwards.Total Primary Notifications.Total Notifications on Form A.Under 5.5 to 10.10 to 15.Total Primary Notifications. !
Pulmonary, Males...l2278173226102107188...............28102
,, Females...l...79211014132279124...............862
Non-pulmonary, Males...1075413......1...3148...............526
,, Females...344224...1...12123...............317
Cols. (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(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.