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Harrow 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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11, being about 10 per cent of the deaths of patients suffering from
pulmonary disease and 3, or 60 per cent. of the deaths of patients suffering
from non-pulmonary disease occurred among patients who had not been
notified in this area as suffering from tuberculosis. Almost all these
deaths had taken place in institutions ; in the case of some the diagnosis
was made only as the result of post-mortem examination.
Register.
| Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| No. on register January 1st, 1942 | 459 | 392 | 79 | 91 |
| No. of New Cases added | 164 | 155 | 27 | 24 |
| No. of cases added—other than on Form A | — | — | — | — |
| No. of cases restored to register | 2 | 7 | 1 | — |
| No. of cases removed | 129 | 102 | 18 | 24 |
| No. on Register December 31st, 1942 | 496 | 452 | 89 | 91 |
The following table is a summary of the cases removed from the register with the reasons for removal:
| Reasons for Removal | Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| Left the district | 33 | 36 | 7 | 7 |
| Died | 74 | 47 | 1 | 5 |
| Cured | 15 | 10 | 6 | 8 |
| Diagnosis not confirmed or withdrawn | 7 | 9 | 4 | 4 |
| Total | 129 | 102 | 18 | 24 |
Deaths.
101 persons (61 male and 40 female) died from pulmonary tuberculosis
during the year and 8 (1 male and 7 female) from non-pulmonary
tuberculosis. Tuberculosis disease therefore accounted for 6.0 per cent.
of the total deaths in the district. The corresponding figures for last
year were 111 deaths from pulmonary and 9 deaths from non-pulmonary
tuberculosis, the disease accounting for 6.7 per cent. of total deaths.
46 per cent. of the total deaths of those who succumbed to pulmonary
tuberculosis took place outside the district, mostly in institutions, the
corresponding figure of those suffering from non-pulmonary tuberculosis
being 75 per cent.
The numbers of deaths in each of the five years 1938 to 1942 from
pulmonary tuberculosis were 68, 60, 77, 111, and 104. The corresponding,
figures for non-pulmonary tuberculosis were 28, 18, 16, 9 and 5, while
the proportion of total deaths caused by tuberculosis in this area in each
of the years was 7.2, 5.5, 5.4, 6.7 and —. The total population at risk
was not so very different in each of those years.