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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 28—
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 | 7 | — | |||||
| transferable deaths from Registrar General | 6 | 4 | ||||||
| Posthumous notifications | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| " Transfers" from other areas (other than transferable deaths) | 21 | 9 | ||||||
| Other sources if any (specify) (Merchant Seamen) | 3 | — | ||||||
| Notification Register. | ||||||||
| Number of cases of Tuberculosis remaining at the 31st December, 1933, 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 | |||
| 485 | 365 | 850 | 169 | 139 | 308 | 1,158 | ||
| Number of cases removed from Registers during the year by reason inter alia of:— | ||||||||
| 1. Withdrawal of notification | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | |
| 2. Recovery from the disease | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | — | — | 6 | |
| 3. Death | 58 | 36 | 94 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 105 | |