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Harrow 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]

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notification is new to the new district and is therefore added to the
number of cases notified. As this would be occurring over the whole
country, the number of new cases would be inflated because many areas
would be including a certain number of these transferred cases in respect
of whom they have received notifications. Each Medical Officer of
Health is required to send to the Registrar-General every week figures of
the notifications received in that week. For some little time now the
figures of the cases of tuberculosis notified have been included in these
weekly returns. In a recent circular the Registrar-General asked that
the numbers included in these returns should in future relate only to
those cases notified for the first time. In future then the figure for any
district will be that of the notifications received in that district in respect
of patients who are being notified for the first time not merely in that
district but anywhere. The figure for the country as a whole obtained
from all these returns will in future be a much more accurate indication
of the number of new cases than the figures hitherto returned. To
bring these figures into line with those submitted to the Registrar-General
only cases notified for the first time will be from now on referred to.
At the same time as all these notified persons who have been transferred
from elsewhere are now living in the district, their names must be added
to the register of cases which, even though it is not now accepted as an
official register, is still being kept.

Thefollowing table sets out the age and sex distribution of thecases notified,divided into the one group of those notified for the firsttime during theyear and the other group of those who had previouslybeen notifiedbut of whom this authority became aware for the firsttime during thisyear:

Primary NotificationBrought to notice other than on a Form "A"
PulmonaryNon-pulmoriaryPulmonaryNon-pulmonary
MFMFMFMF
Under 1
1- 4263
5- 9211
10-1412
15-147141212
20-2415161441
25-342324221412
35-441517141
45-542871125
55-64153112
65 and over714111
Totals11588136262712

The combined figures of 278 can be compared with the number
new cases learned of for the first time in the previous years, these
being 357 for the year 1953 and the preceding years 271, 358, 370 and
• The number of cases notified for the first time in 1954 might be