Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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Notifications .βOne hundred and thirty-one patients were notified for the first time in 1937 as suffering from tuberculosis. The number was made up as follows:β
Males. | Females. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 61 | 49 | 110 |
Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 9 | 12 | 21 |
70 | 61 | 131 |
During the year it was found possible to remove from the
tuberculosis register the names of 14 children and 17 adults
in whom evidence of active disease had ceased to exist.
The following is a statement of particulars appearing in the Register of Notifications of Cases of Tuberculosis for the year ended 31st December, 1937:β
Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | total | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | ||
Number on Register at commencement of year | 253 | 187 | 440 | 46 | 52 | 98 | 538 |
Number first notified during the year | 61 | 49 | 110 | 9 | 12 | 21 | 131 |
Number of cases entered in Register otherwise than by Notification | 16 | 16 | 32 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 42 |
Number removed from the Register during the year | 55 | 45 | 100 | 13 | 16 | 29 | 129 |
Number remaining at the end of the year | 275 | 207 | 482 | 48 | 52 | 100 | 582 |
Details of cases removed from the Register during the year:β Died | 33 | 22 | 55 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 63 |
Removed from the district | 11 | 11 | 22 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 34 |
De-notified | 10 | 12 | 22 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 31 |