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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 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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N otification R egister.
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total Cases | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | Total | ||
| Number of cases of Tuberculosis remaining on the Register at the 31st December, 1931 | 718 | 630 | 1348 | 257 | 199 | 456 | 1804 |
| Number of cases removed from the Register during the year by reason inter alia of :— 1. Withdrawal of notification | 32 | 32 | 64 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 76 |
| 2. Recovery from the disease | 40 | 37 | 77 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 91 |
| 3. Death | 56 | 54 | 110 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 125 |
| 4. Totals | 128 | 123 | 251 | 22 | 19 | 41 | 292 |
NOTES.
Part I.
(a) Formal notifications are notifications which are made in pursuance of
Article 5 of the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930, or by Naval, Military
or Air Force Medical Authorities in pursuance of Section 5 (b) of the Local
Government (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1916.
(b) Primary Notifications for the purpose of columns (2)-(13) relate to patients
who have never previously been formally notified in the area to which the Return
relates.
A patient who changes his residence from one Sanitary District to another in
the same County may properly be the subject of Primary Notification in each such
District. Only the first of such notifications, however, are recorded in columns
(2)-(13) of the Return for the County concerned, the subsequent notification(s) being
included in column (14).
(c) Column (14). All formal notifications, whether duplicate or not, are
included in this column.
General.—Patients notified as suffering from combined pulmonary and nonpulmonary
tuberculosis are included included among the "pulmonary" returns only.
If a patient already notified as suffering from one form of tuberculosis is subsequently
notified to the Medical Officer of Health of the same Sanitary District as
suffering from another form of tuberculosis, the fact is noted in the Notification
Register, but such notification is recorded as a duplicate notification.
Part II.
(a) New cases of tuberculosis first coming to knowledge otherwise than by
formal notification may in some instances afterwards be formally notified under the
Regulations. Should such formal notification be received within the same year as
that in which the case first came to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health,