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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 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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It is interesting to note that in 1962 only one of the primary notifications
from the Harrow Chest Clinic related to a case occuring in an
immigrant.
Register.
The Tuberculosis Register is a compilation of the names of those
persons in the district who are suffering from the disease or have recently
suffered from it. The names of the newly notified are added to it and
entries are made of those persons who have moved into the district
suffering from tuberculosis. Names are deleted on the removal of persons
from the district or on death, or recovery, an accepted standard of
recovery being a lapse of five years in the pulmonary cases and three
years in non-pulmonary cases from the date the disease was arrested.
The following table gives the age and sex distribution both of persons who were resident in the district when it was recognised that they were suffering from tuberculosis and of those who moved into the district already suffering from the disease.
| Age Group | Primary Notification | Brought to notice other than on Form "A" | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1-4 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5-9 | 5 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10-14 | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| 15-19 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| 20-24 | 3 | 4 | 1 | — | 1 | 8 | — | 1 |
| 25-34 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 1 |
| 35-44 | 6 | 3 | — | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| 45-54 | 8 | 2 | — | 1 | 2 | 3 | — | — |
| 55-64 | 6 | 2 | — | — | 3 | — | — | — |
| 65 and over | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Totals | 36 | 33 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 26 | 2 | 2 |
Details of cases removed from the register during the year.
The following is a summary of the changes which have taken place in the register during the year:—
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| No. on register, January 1st 1962 | 1,213 | 973 | 119 | 145 |
| No. of new cases added | 36 | 33 | 3 | 3 |
| No. of cases other than on a Form "A" | 16 | 26 | 2 | 2 |
| No. of cases restored to register | 2 | 3 | — | — |
| No. of cases removed | 128 | 87 | 8 | 5 |
| No. on register December 31st, 1962 | 1,139 | 948 | 116 | 145 |