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Shoreditch 1928

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Particulars of the notifications received during the year are given in the following
Table:—

Table: PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1912.Summary of Notifications during the Period from the 1st January, 1928, to the 29tii December, 1928, in the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.

PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1912.

Summary of Notifications during the Period from the 1st January, 1928, to the 29tii December, 1928, in the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.

Age-periods.Notifications on Form A.Notifications on Form B.Number of Notifications on Form C.Number of Notifications on Form D.
Number of Primary Notifications.Total Notifications on Form A.Number of Primary Notifications.Total Notifications on Form B.Poor Law Institutions.Sanatoria.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 45.15 to 55.55 to 65.65 and upwards.Total Primary Notifications.Under 5.5 to 10.10 to 15.Total Primary Notifications.
Pulmonary, Males...1l41123151918144110200...............511312058
,, Females......23181617141210193150...............3073833
Non-pulmonary, Males...810531112......3142...............939415
,, Females...634223...2......2228...1...11...18...9
Cols. (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)

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Patients notified as suffering from both pulmonary and non-pulmonary disease are included in the "pulmonary" returns.
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 eases 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, cither on Form A or on Form B, are included in this column.
Cols. 21-23. Only notifications on Form C, made by the medical officers of sanatoria, as defined in the Tuberculosis Regulations
are included in this column.
From the foregoing table it will be seen that the total number of cases notified
for the first time during the year under consideration was 257 (Columns 13 and
18).