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Harrow 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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The 33 notifications of non-pulmonary disease is the same as the
figure for the previous year. In nine instances the onset of the disease
preceded the transference to the district of the patient. In most others
it must be presumed that the infection was contracted while they were
resident here. In only two of these cases was there a family history
of tuberculosis.
Register.
| Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| No. on register January 1st, 1946 | 609 | 543 | 98 | 103 |
| No. of New Cases added | 143 | 112 | 8 | 17 |
| No. of cases added—other than on Form A ... ... ... | 24 | 27 | 4 | 2 |
| No. of cases restored to register | 3 | 6 | — | — |
| No. of cases removed ... | 130 | 130 | 14 | 27 |
| No. on Register December 31st, 1946 | 649 | 558 | 96 | 98 |
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 | 43 | 69 | 4 | 6 |
| Died | 65 | 28 | 1 | 5 |
| Cured | 21 | 26 | 8 | 15 |
| Diagnosis not confirmed or withdrawn | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 130 | 130 | 14 | 27 |
Deaths.
Seventy-nine persons (55 male and 24 female) died from pulmonary
tuberculosis during the year, and 11 (4 male and 7 female) from nonpulmonary
tuberculosis. This infection, therefore, accounted for 4-4
per cent, of the total deaths—much the same figure and much the same
proportion as last year. The disease these days accounts for 8-1 per
cent, of deaths for the country as a whole.