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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 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 32—continued.
The source or sources from which 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 | 7 | 2 | |
| Posthumous notifications | — | 2 | |
| "Transfers " from other areas (other than transferable deaths) | 22 | 4 | |
| Other sources if any (specify) (Merchant Seamen) | 1 | — | |
Notification Register.
| Number of cases of Tuberculosis remaining at the 31st December, 1932, on the Registers of Notifications kept by the Medical Officer of Health. | Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary | Total Cases | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | Total | ||
| 506 | 359 | 865 | 162 | 124 | 286 | 1,151 | |
| Number of cases removed from Registers during the year by reason inter alia of:— | |||||||
| 1. Diagnosis not confirmed by T.O. (withdrawal of notification) | 11 | 8 | 19 | — | — | — | 19 |
| 2. Recovery from the disease | 10 | 7 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 24 |
| 3. Death | 64 | 56 | 120 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 135 |