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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
Harrow 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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| New Cases | Deaths | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Notification | Brought to notice other than by Form A | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||||||
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1-4 | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 2 | 1 |
| 5-9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| 10-14 | 3 | 4 | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15-19 | 24 | 16 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 4 | 4 | — | 1 |
| 20-24 | 12 | 28 | — | 3 | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | 4 | — | |
| 25-34 | 21 | 27 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 1 | — | 4 | 5 | — | 2 |
| 35-44 | 22 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | 13 | 7 | — | 1 |
| 45-54 | 21 | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | — | 11 | 2 | — | — |
| 55-64 | 12 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 2 | 1 | — |
| 65 & up | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | — | 1 |
| 117 | 98 | 12 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 38 | 31 | 3 | 6 | |
The notifications of pulmonary tuberculosis, which did not show any
marked increase in 1939 and 1940, rose appreciably in 1941 to the figure
of 354 as against that of 228 in the previous year. The fall from this
peak in the next two years, with 319 and 271 cases, was arrested by a
slight increase to 289 in 1944. Much of this increase was attributable
to notifications amongst persons who were in the Services when the
disease was first notified. There was a slight fall in the number of notifications
in 1945 when 261 were received. 63 of these notifications (54
males and 9 females) were from people in whom the diagnosis was made
while they were in the Services, or related to persons who were stationed
locally at the time the diagnosis was made. Of those about whom particulars
are known 52 (20 males and 32 females) had been notified in another
district before they came here, having already contracted the infection
before transfer. 133 (72 males and 61 females) were notified for the first
time while living here and had presumably contracted the infection here.
Even assuming the other 6 (1 male and 5 females) about whom particulars
have not yet been received, had similarly contracted the infection here,
the total figure of 139 is a welcome fall on that of not less than 184 for
the year 1944. A family history of infection was obtained in only 12
per cent. of the males as against a figure of 23 per cent. in the case of
females.
The figure of 33 non-pulmonary notifications was a fall on that for
last year and was a continuation of the decline which has occurred each
year since the peak figure of 51 in 1942. Of these, three notifications
related to persons in whom the disease had been diagnosed while they
were in the Services, and a further seven related to persons who were