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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
East Ham 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 37—
The source or sources from which above information as to the above-mentioned cases was obtained:—
| Source of Information. | No. of Cases. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | ||
| Death returns | from local Registrars | 3 | 2 |
| transferable deaths from Registrar General | 4 | 1 | |
| Posthumous notifications | 1 | 2 | |
| "Transfers" from other areas (other than transferable deaths) | 18 | 5 | |
| Other sources if any (specify) | 1 | — | |
Notification Register.
| Number of cases of Tuberculosis remaining at the 31st December, 1931, on the Registers of Notifications kept by the Medical Officer of Health of the County Borough. | Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary | Total Cases | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | Total | ||
| 531 | 370 | 901 | 168 | 127 | 295 | 1,196 | |
| Number of cases removed from Registers during the year by reason inter alia of :— | |||||||
| 1. Diagnosis not confirmed by T.O. (withdrawal of notification) | 4 | 12 | 16 | — | — | — | 16 |
| 2. Recovery from the disease | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 3. Death | 60 | 45 | 105 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 118 |
| 4. Removals to other areas | 30 | 26 | 56 | 15 | 9 | 24 | 80 |