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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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| SOURCE OF INFORMATION AS TO THE ABOVE-MENTIONED CASES. | No. of Cases | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | ||
| Death Returns | from local Registrars | 3 | 1 |
| transferable deaths from Registrar General | 3 | 1 | |
| Posthumous notifications | |||
| "Transfers" from other areas (other than transferable deaths) | 17 | 7 | |
| Other sources if any (specify) was removed to address unknown—returned to register | 1 | ... | |
| 24 | 9 | ||
| = 33 | |||
Notification Register.
| Number of cases of Tuberculosis remaining on the Register at the 31st December, 1933 | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total Cases | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Total | Males | Females Total | |||
| 645 | 562 | 1207 | 242 | 189 | 431 | 1638 | |
| Number of cases removed from the Register during the year by reason inter alia of:— | |||||||
| 1. Withdrawal of notification | 55 | 51 | 106 | 8 | 16 | 24 | 130 |
| 2. Recovery from the disease | 9 | 9 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 27 |
| 3. Death | 61 | 46 | 107 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 120 |
| 4. Totals | 125 | 106 | 231 | 25 | 21 | 46 | 277 |
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.