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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 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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The tuberculosis register gives valuable information as to the age and
sex distribution of those who are currently infected and resident in the
district. In addition inter-authority co-operation ensures that when an
infected person moves into a district, not only are their names added to the
new authority's register but such residents can be speedily informed of the
local treatment facilities. Names are deleted from the register on the
removal of persons from the district, or on death or recovery, and an
accepted standard of recovery being a lapse of 5 years in the pulmonary
cases and 3 in non-pulmonary cases from the date the disease was arrested.
The following table give 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 and also a summary of changes in the register.
| Primary Notification | Brought to notice other than Primary Notification | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1— 4 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5— 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10—14 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15—19 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| 20—24 | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | |
| 25—34 | 5 | — | 5 | 4 | — | — | ||
| 35—44 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | ||
| 45—54 | 4 | 4 | — | — | 2 | — | 2 | — |
| 55—64 | 10 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 65 & over | 1 | 1 | — | — | 4 | — | — | — |
| 26 | 18 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | |
| — | — | — | — | |