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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
Stepney 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1912.
Summary of Notifications during the period from the 4th January, 1925, to 2nd January, 1926, in the
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
| Age periods. | Notifications on Form A | Notifications on Form B.† | Number of Notifications on Form C. | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Primary Notifications. | TOTAL Notifications on Form A. | 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 65 | 65 and upwards. | Total Primary Notifications. | Under 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | Total Primary Notifications. | |||||
| Pulmonary Males | — | 4 | 10 | 8 | 22 | 44 | 57 | 54 | 65 | 32 | 13 | 309 | 381 | — | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 98 | 226 |
| ,, Females | — | 6 | 14 | 4 | 36 | 26 | 41 | 33 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 192 | 218 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 63 | 109 |
| Non-Pulmonary Males | 2 | 18 | 11 | 10 | 5 | — | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 58 | 63 | — | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 27 |
| ,, ,, Females | 1 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | — | — | — | 33 | 35 | — | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 21 |
| Col. (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (13) | (14) | (15) | (16) | (17) | (18) | (19) | (20) | (21) |
In filling up the form the following notes should be carefully observed—
Patients notified as suffering from both pulmonary and non-pulmonary disease should be included among the "pulmonary" returns only.
All notifications on Form D should be disregarded in preparing this return.
*Primary notifications relate to patients who have not previously been notified in this or former years, either on Form A or o Form B,
in the area to which the return relates. Any additional notification of a case which has been previously notified in the area is to be
regarded as duplicate. (Note—No primary notifications should be made on Form C).
†A School Medical Inspector, or the Medical Officer of Health of a county, county borough, or other district, if acting as 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 previously been notified.
Cols. 2-13. Only those cases which have been notified for the first time during the year on Form A in the area concerned, and which
have never previously been notified in the area, either on Form A or on Form B, should be included in these columns.
Col. 14. The object of this column is to show the extent to which duplicate notification occurs on Form A, and all notifications on
Form A, whether duplicate or not, should be included in this columm.
Cols. 15-18. Only those cases which have been notified for the first time during the year on Form B in the area concerned, and which
have never previously been notified in the area, either on Form A or on Form B, should be included in these columns.
Col. 19. All notifications which have been made during the year on Form B in the area concerned, whether the cases have previously
been notified in the area or not, either on Form A or on Form B, should be included it this column.
Col. 21. If, in the case of any institution belonging to the Council, formal notifications on Form C have not been made, the totals of the
weekly admissions during the year of patients proper for notification on Form C should be shewn (according to classification in
column 1) in brackets in column 21. T. 115.